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"America Is an Idealist Power in a Reapolitik World"

Angry Planet

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You're You'll Push on Me for This, I Hope.

I was in the clinton white house of the national security council in 93 and 94 when this enlargement of mata was being hatched. I fought it tooth and nail. I thought it was a really bad idea. My argument, i think, is much more nuancedand and i would say, balance than mersheimer,. In the sense that i attribute to the united states noble intent. And so for me, is a story of trying to balance idealism and realism. We'll never know what might have happened if nato hadn't enlarged. This is all by way of saying,Hey folks, hey it's complicated."

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