Top 10 warning signs of 'liberal imperialism'
Stephen Walt, May 20, 2013
Are you a liberal imperialist? Liberal imperialists are like kinder, gentler
neoconservatives: Like neocons, they believe it's America's responsibility to
right political and humanitarian wrongs around the world, and they're
comfortable with the idea of the United States deciding who will run countries
such as Libya, Syria, or Afghanistan. Unlike neocons, liberal imperialists
embrace and support international institutions (like the United Nations), and
they are driven more by concern for human rights than they are by blind
nationalism or protecting the U.S.-Israel special relationship. Still, like the
neocons, liberal imperialists are eager proponents for using American hard
power, even in situations where it might easily do more harm than good. The
odd-bedfellow combination of their idealism with neocons' ideology has given us
a lot of bad foreign policy over the past decade, especially the decisions to
intervene militarily in Iraq or nation-build in Afghanistan, and today's
drumbeat to do the same in Syria.
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