Reply #20: I remember Ike, and I believe the post-Nixon republicans are differerent [View All]

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from Eisenhower and Nixon. While I was much more naive and didn't benefit from an internet at the time, both of these earlier R's seem to me to be authentically interested in international peace.

After Nixon, as the Democrats turned against their own historic interest in international interventionism, the whacko neocons seem to have gained ascendence in the R's and suddenly confrontation and the threat of the big stick became their international policy.

People who believe that power is the ultimate arbiter of competition are very dangerous. People who believe in global hegemonic power are the ultimate in danger.