Deafening Silence at Columbia
MikeR on Sep 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
Tag Archive 'American exceptionalism'
Declinism as Exceptionalism
Lee on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by his belief in an inevitable diminution of American moral authority by course of the Iraq War, and alleged American provocations of Russia which have in his view, inaugurated a decline of American global power.
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