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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Book Review: An American Return to Peace To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations, Angelo M. Codevilla, Hoover Institution Press, 248 pages

An American Return to Peace

To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations, Angelo M. Codevilla, Hoover Institution Press, 248 pages

None of the major foreign policy schools get it. Pacifism enables the bully and finally promotes aggression and war, neither very peaceful. Liberal internationalism denies that nations can be bullies when we understand them better and teach them to be good democrats. Realism thinks we can convince the McLaglen’s to see their better interest in making a deal rather than fighting. Neoconservatism has Wayne become a bully too, not only winning the fight as Wayne does but to reform McLaglen and the whole countryside of unsophisticated rubes to accept the American way, by force if necessary. Codevilla stresses that the word “peace” is foreign to them all.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/an-american-return-to-peace/

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