"The Iraq War of 2003 didn't come out of nowhere; it represents the culmination of misguided policies, virtually all of them-including the 1980s ''tilt'' toward Saddam Hussein-carried out in plain sight of the American public. Blaming everything on Bush won't prevent a recurrence of Bush's mistakes. A realist might suggest that Americans looking for someone to hold accountable begin by looking in the mirror." (Andrew J. Bacevich in the Boston Globe last month)
Realism, isolationism, neoliberalism, conservatism, all mean for us to stop meddling with the world. Tend to our own needs. Maybe call it newamericanism.
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