WHY THE LIBERAL HAWKS RULE THE ROOST

Matthew Petti considers the ways in which shifting perspectives on US foreign policy adventures have shaped current thinking

WESTERN FOREIGN POLICY CIRCLES have lately become very interested in the Left and its rhetoric. United States government bodies are holding meetings on “decolonising Russia”. Venerable publications such as Foreign Policy have picked up the insult “tankie,” previously used by Communists to attack each other. Supporters of NATO may as well be quoting Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book as they rail against the chauvinism of Western leftists. Or, in more modern social justice terms, those leftists are guilty of “West-splaining” and ignoring the agency of the oppressed. All this may seem to be a result of the Great Awokening, the seeping of identity politics into elite institutions. In fact, it’s a rehashing of an American foreign policy debate that took place several decades ago. After the US defeat in Southeast…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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