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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1694)	4/5/2006 6:26:00 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) of 14758

"realistic Wilsonianism" is exactly what we need and as Fukuyama says it "will require a new team and new policies." Which party will bring us this new enlightened fp? Choice is not at all obvious with folks like AS and KLP running around looking for the most radical alternatives. Our choice might actually end up being between defeatists and super hawks. "Mr. Fukuyama predicts that "one of the consequences of a perceived failure in Iraq will be the discrediting of the entire neoconservative agenda and a restoration of the authority of foreign policy realists." He writes that "neoconservatism, as both a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something that I can no longer support." In its place, he calls for a "realistic Wilsonianism" that would involve "a dramatic demilitarization of American foreign policy and re-emphasis on other types of policy instruments," the jettisoning of incendiary rhetoric about a global war on terrorism and the promotion of political and economic development abroad through "soft power" ("our ability to set an example, to train and educate, to support with advice and often money")."

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