I am reading Noam Chomsky for the first time. Do get lefty brownie points for that? And do I get points for resisting Chomsky for so long after everyone told me I should read him? Is that how this works?
I think Americans need to become less introverted and think more as internationalists might: that not all foreigners are completely stupid and cowardly. When that happens, the USA may become more reluctant to be so cavalier, not to mention so rigid, in their creation of a "world order". Once they've determined their relationship to the world - their real place among their allies - they'll be able to make better decisions, not to mention able to resist undertaking "easy" enterprises. And when they ahve that perspective, they'll understand the dynamic ways in which victory can be achieved, not to mention the many ways in which you can define victory.
They need to read more history and be less concerned with writing history.
My unedited two cents, as meaningless as it might be.
Respectfully, I disagree that the U.S. is introverted. It seems that they think plenty about internationalism, but the problem is HOW they think about internationalism
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They are quite introverted in that almost every action on the international scale is unilateral, without any significant negotiation with other stakeholders, even allies. Anyone who didn't tote their line in the second Iraq war was rediculed as being cowardly and morally bankrupt, being relegated to their contrived "old order", the irrelevant. That's introverted thinking. No effort whatsoever to engage their allies constructively or to a common goal. They do what they do when they want to and without real regard for any other government
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Internationalism implies your government attempts to engage other governments in a mutually positive way. US legislators and government, however, sees themselves as being accountable to only their electorate.
That was my point. Don't know why I had to write so much before.
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I think Americans need to become less introverted and think more as internationalists might: that not all foreigners are completely stupid and cowardly. When that happens, the USA may become more reluctant to be so cavalier, not to mention so rigid, in their creation of a "world order". Once they've determined their relationship to the world - their real place among their allies - they'll be able to make better decisions, not to mention able to resist undertaking "easy" enterprises. And when they ahve that perspective, they'll understand the dynamic ways in which victory can be achieved, not to mention the many ways in which you can define victory.
They need to read more history and be less concerned with writing history.
My unedited two cents, as meaningless as it might be.
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That was my point. Don't know why I had to write so much before.
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