Interesting reading this morning…from the Times.
“After the fall of the Soviet Union, Neocons…suggested that the United States would use its margin of power to exert a kind of "benevolent hegemony" over the rest of the world, fixing problems like rogue states with W.M.D., human rights abuses and terrorist threats as they came up.
Writing before the Iraq war, Kristol and Kagan considered whether this posture would provoke resistance from the rest of the world, and concluded, "It is precisely because American foreign policy is infused with an unusually high degree of morality that other nations find they have less to fear from its otherwise daunting power." ...”
Where did our unusual high degree of morality go?
It’s a good article and worth logging on to the Times website…
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