The tragic vision may seem arrogant, hawkish, and unenlightened, even brutish to some but it’s grounded in realism, experience, empirical facts. Conversely, in the vision of the anointed, as defined by Thomas Sowell, many of the ideals are suspended in fantasy — as honorable myths, but myths nonetheless.
Krauthammer says it much more eloquently than I do:
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There’s no natural, inherent, or enduring international community. What community of interest is there between, say, the United States, Iran, Zimbabwe, and Burma?
The international community is a Hobbesian state of nature with no universally recognized norms. Anarchy is kept in check not by some bureaucracy on the East River, not by some inchoate expression of world opinion, not by parchment promises adorned with disingenuous signatures, but by the will and the power of the Great Powers and, most important in our time, the one remaining superpower: namely, the United States.
One of my favorite T-Shirts says it all in one neat little sentence: Peace through superior firepower
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