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发帖数: 5309 | 1 Two terms as president may not have disabused Obama of his arc-of-justice
idealism (see above: Hiroshima visit), but they have forced upon him at
least one policy of hardheaded, indeed hardhearted, realism. On his Vietnam
trip this week, Obama accepted the reality of an abusive dictatorship while
announcing a warming of relations and the lifting of the U.S. arms embargo,
thereby enlisting Vietnam as a full partner in the containment of China.
This follows the partial return of the U.S. military to the Philippines,
another element of the containment strategy. Indeed, the Trans-Pacific
Partnership itself is less about economics than geopolitics, creating a
Pacific Rim cordon around China.
There's no idealism in containment. It is raw, soulless realpolitik. No
moral arc. No uplifting historical arrow. In fact, it is the same damn thing
all over again, a recapitulation of Truman's containment of Russia in the
late 1940s. Obama is doing the same, now with China.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/obamas-naive-idealis | k*******g
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