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The Morality Of Political Realism: Fortitude For The American Imperium
What are we witnessing in the political and therefore spiritual morass that is a craven European Union, especially geopolitically and strategically? “Idealism” is a tough sell in American Foreign Policy, but most often it has been alloyed to the social … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Constitution, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Near East, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged American Power, Foreign Policy, Idealism, Identity development, Imperium, Kissenger, Mesopotamia, Near East, Pakistan, Politics, Realism, Spiritual and Political
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Obama: The AfPak Strategy, What Nixon & Kissenger Can Teach
If Nixon hadn’t committed political suicide in Watergate, he would have turned a very diplomatic war into a massive win given how the Tet offensive was a disaster for the North Vietnamese. Yes, the Marxist doctrine on insurgency was … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Frontier, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged Afpak, Arthur Herman, Hanoi, Indochina lessons, Kissenger, Nixon, Three insights to win in AfPak theatre, Vietnam, Vietnam lessons for USA
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Osama bin Laden: The Nemesis Of History
The death of Osama bin Laden ushers in an period of relief fit for Sophocles! It should surprise no one that violent revolutionaries are unfit to govern the impact of the means by which they rule. This tale is well … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Sun Tzu, Terrorism
Tagged Ajami, Al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bush, Cold War, Freedom Agenda, Holy Alliance, Ibn Khaldun, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Terrorism, Islamofascism, Kissenger, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden, Proxies, Raymond Aaron, September 11, Terrorism, Zawahiri
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Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz: Marxian Shylocks & The Political Incubus Of Failure
The cherished yet divided life of diasporic Jews in America exemplified in Kissenger, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz, Einstein and hosts of other brilliant minds relieved from the tyranny of Fascism in Europe was on full … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Constitution, Education, International Relations, Israel, Journalism, Morality, Politics, Reagan, Uncategorized
Tagged Burke, Chambers, Diaspora Jews, Dostoyevsky, Heschel, Irving Berlin, Irving Kristol, Kissenger, Liberty, Marxism, Norman Podhoretz, Russia, Solzhenitsyn, Strauss, Tocqueville
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A True Catholic Humanist: Gilbert Murray & The Imploding West
Gilbert Murray is not often thought of being Roman Catholic, I remain unsure of his personal affections regarding the sources of contemporary Catholicism; he remained throughout his life a very deep public man of Britain, throughly engaged in the issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Middle East Peace, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Calvinism, Catholic Church Independence, Determinism, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Gilbert Murray, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, Kissenger, Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Protestant Reformation, Raymond Aron, Satanism, Victorian Ethos
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Islamic Fundamentalist Terror, Revolutionary Powers: Agents Of Violent Change
Are there historical antecedents to the rise of Islamo-fascism? What can we quarry from authors struggling to maintain an even gaze on such political violence? How do they shape both our ability to perceive enemies and our response to such … Continue reading
Statesman & The Gift Of Shaping The Future
Henry Kissenger once remarked that “great statesmen are distinguished less by their detailed knowledge than by their instinctive grasp of historical currents; by an ability to discern amidst the myriad of impressions that impinge on consciousness those most likely to … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations
Tagged Kissenger, Statesmanship
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