LQD: An American neocon on European neopacifism | 24 comments (24 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: LQD: An American neocon on European (4.00 / 3)

Wow, Robert "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus" Kagan, too!

We discussed this new foreign policy paradigm of Empire Light, in which the hegemon believes it needs the manpower of its vassals, in nanne's Power Void in Europe. Of course, Kagan is much more explicit.

I this the most noteworthy thing about this piece is that the realisation of/panic about power loss for the superpower is spreading in the foreign policy elite.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Dec 5th, 2009 at 02:47:09 PM EST

Re: LQD: An American neocon on European (4.00 / 2)

Damn, I should learn to read... Kaplan, not Kagan...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Dec 5th, 2009 at 02:53:39 PM EST
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Warmongers alike (4.00 / 3)

Though the one is a neocon (Kagan) and the other, well, just loves war.

Needless to say they hate each other over the finer points of how and why to wage war.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sat Dec 5th, 2009 at 03:33:37 PM EST
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Re: LQD: An American neocon on European (4.00 / 6)

DoDo:

(T)he realisation of/panic about power loss for the superpower is spreading in the foreign policy elite.

Unfortunately, these geniuses don't seem to grasp the danger to their beloved power posed by the ongoing economic decline and/or collapse. They don't seem to grasp the danger to the ability of the USA to fight a war without a manufacturing sector.

Perhaps their brains are so busy trying to track all of the complex geo-political threats and opportunities that they do not have time or energy to devote to consideration of the implications of the industrial infrastructure eroding from beneath their feet like the sand under the pilings of a Carolina Outer Banks beach house.

In my dreams the Chinese government would buy the "think tanks" for which they work. I wonder if they would feel obliged to resign if that happened.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Dec 6th, 2009 at 11:41:38 PM EST
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Re: LQD: An American neocon on European (4.00 / 4)

Unfortunately, these geniuses don't seem to grasp the danger to their beloved power posed by the ongoing economic decline and/or collapse. They don't seem to grasp the danger to the ability of the USA to fight a war without a manufacturing sector.

They labour under the delusion that empires are powerful because of the legions they maintain. The truth, of course, is that empires maintain legions because they are powerful.

In my dreams the Chinese government would buy the "think tanks" for which they work. I wonder if they would feel obliged to resign if that happened.

And give up that wonderful gravy train?

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Dec 6th, 2009 at 11:58:14 PM EST
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Re: LQD: An American neocon on European (4.00 / 2)

They are glorified lobbyists, and as such will work for anyone.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon Dec 7th, 2009 at 03:23:00 PM EST
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