Strategic Empathyis Is Out the Window

Since the rise of third generation neo conservatives in the 19 nineties, strategic empathyis is out the window. Anyone who tries to understand the adversary's perspective, is a notsy sympathizer. And leaders have finary choice. You can either be a weak appeaser like chamberlain, or a brave stalwart like churchill. Those are your two options. It's this manachean cartoonish and, above all, cynical way of looking at the world. But it's a very effective way of getting what you want,. which is why the neocons, who are relatively small in number, have gotten their way on most foreign policy questions over the last 30 years. They did the same