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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1010445)	4/7/2017 2:01:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573407

........ Ultimately, the crisis facing the Trump administration exposes the impotency of so-called realism in the real world. Realists tend to claim that they are uniquely concerned with pursuing rational policies solely in our national interest. This is nonsense, given that all foreign-policy schools claim the national interest as their lodestar, and determining the national interest is an inherently ideological enterprise. More to the point, so-called realism tends to be defenseless against the shock of events. Obama came into office promising to be a realist, albeit of a liberal sort. In 2007, he said that preventing a potential genocide wasn’t a good enough reason to stay in Iraq. But in 2011, he said intervening in Libya was justified because Qaddafi was killing thousands. Why the change? It’s hard to be president when the horrible images and the shouts of “Do something!” start rolling in. That’s a lesson Trump, who also campaigned as a realist and non-interventionist, is learning. I hope he chooses wisely. Read more at: nationalreview.com