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		<title>America’s African Rifles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kaplan calls them America&#8217;s African Rifles, native troops in Niger trained by American Marines: Baker&#8217;s men had just begun training three platoons&#8217; worth of host-country soldiers, individually selected by their commanders for talent and motivation. Nothing fancy here. The initial training cycle consisted of the fundamentals of good soldiery: shooting, land navigation, and basic medicine. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpopular War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kissinger and Nixon continued an unpopular war, Robert Kaplan notes, and they were pilloried for it: Even the harshest journalistic accounts make clear that Kissinger and Nixon genuinely felt, despite the public outcry, that continuing the war was necessary for America to sustain its strategic position worldwide. Shawcross wrote that the two men were influenced [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Perpetual Creation and Routine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profound policy thrives on perpetual creation, Kissinger said, while good administration thrives on routine. Robert Kaplan agrees: Foreign Service officers tend to support those policies that do not threaten their jobs and chances for promotion. I have found that many of them just want to get through the day. A Secretary of State who follows [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Realism is dull</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realism is dull, Robert Kaplan notes, but it works: Kissinger&#8217;s description of Metternich&#8217;s diplomatic achievement in controlling Napoleon adds another layer: &#8220;It had not produced any great conceptions; nor had it used the noble dreams of an impatient [revolutionary] generation. Its skill did not lie in creativity but in proportion, in its ability to combine [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans aren&#8217;t as idealistic as their media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kaplan supported intervention in Bosnia, for strategic and moral reasons, as did the media, presumably for moral reasons — but most Americans did not: Andrew Kohut, the former president of the Gallup Organization, who is now the director of the Pew Research Center for the People &#38; the Press, told me recently that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Realists almost always run foreign policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our foreign-policy idealism is mainly confined to the media and academia, Robert Kaplan suspects: Realists almost always run foreign policy; idealists, I have found, attend academic conferences and write books and articles from the sidelines.]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Superior Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Castlereagh&#8217;s England and Metternich&#8217;s Austria held opposing positions on the Greek struggle for independence, because England could afford to be idealistic and Austria could not: Castlereagh&#8217;s open-mindedness, Kissinger wrote, reflected not &#8220;a superior morality&#8221; but rather &#8220;the consciousness of safety conferred by an insular position.&#8221; Because Castlereagh&#8217;s England was surrounded by seas, it did not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Morality alone can never be a basis for foreign policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young Henry Kissinger allied himself with the foreign-policy realists of the time, who doubted that America could affect the internal evolution of many other societies at once: Morgenthau wrote in Vietnam and the United States (1965) that because the resources of even a superpower are limited, morality alone can never be a basis for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dread of Revolutions</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/02/dread-of-revolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kissinger lived through the Nazi rise to power, and he studied Napoleon in great depth, which led to his lasting dread of revolutions, Robert Kaplan explains: Rapid social and political transformation leads to violence, whether throughout the Europe of the early 1800s, owing to Napoleon&#8217;s aggression — itself a direct result of the French Revolution [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent, Orderly, and Legitimate</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/02/permanent-orderly-and-legitimate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In perceiving the Soviet Union as permanent, orderly, and legitimate, Robert Kaplan says, Kissinger shared a failure of analysis with the rest of the foreign-policy elite — notably excepting a few insightful individuals: the scholar and former head of the State Department&#8217;s policy-planning staff George Kennan, the Harvard historian Richard Pipes, the British scholar and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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