http://thecrossedpond.com/2008/11/24/the-foreign-policy-team/ "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://thecrossedpond.com/2008/11/24/the-foreign-policy-team/comment-page-1/#comment-19409 Redland Jack Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:40:07 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=6759#comment-19409 Ideologically-based foreign policy is good. It's just important to have the right ideology. '...pragmatic, hard-nosed real-world' foreign policy is, in my opinion, awful. That's the sort of policy where you raise up some dictators and arm them one day and then impose sanctions on them the next. Without ideology guiding your actions, policy becomes incoherent. I'd say most of politics is defined by pragmatism, which is why politics is such a horrible, vile mess. Ideologically-based foreign policy is good. It’s just important to have the right ideology.
‘…pragmatic, hard-nosed real-world’ foreign policy is, in my opinion, awful. That’s the sort of policy where you raise up some dictators and arm them one day and then impose sanctions on them the next. Without ideology guiding your actions, policy becomes incoherent.
I’d say most of politics is defined by pragmatism, which is why politics is such a horrible, vile mess.

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