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The Primacy of Intellect
On matters of United States foreign and defense policy, it is high time to return to
Reason.[1] Why a “return?” During his four years as president, Donald J. Trump created an almost seamless web of policy derelictions and corresponding failures. In this humiliating history of calculated
Unreason, Trump’s strategic declensions were the result of both witting dissemblance and outright irrationality.[2]
Naturally, some of these evident failures were substantially worse than others. Of special concern today must be the former president’s error-marked postures concerning North Korea. Over time, though perhaps still not widely evident, these accumulated liabilities could produce intolerable outcomes. Where they would involve any sort of nuclear exchange, such failures could be altogether irremediable.[3]
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Louis Rene Beres, professor emeritus of international law at Purdue, discusses how the Biden Administration can move beyond the America First policies of its predecessor to restore America s place in the international community.
“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself’ is false and against nature.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
The Phenomenon of Man
From time immemorial, world politics have been rooted in
Realpolitik or power politics. Although such patterns of thinking are normally accepted as “realistic,” these acquiescent postures have actually proven to be consistent failures. It follows that US President Joseph Biden would be well-advised to acknowledge the inherent security limitations of a global threat system, and begin the process of identifying more durable configurations of international relations and international law.