U.S. violence against the world's poorest countries continues even though it doesn't work - so it's not surprising that the Trump team doesn't take the rules too seriously.
I always find it hard to put myself in the mind of these Natsec people because I assume they have to genuinely believe that their worldview is correct and that what they are doing is good.
I think you said it best when you mention "abstraction". The only way you could believe in a worldview so terrible and contradictory is if it was highly abstract.
Yeah, I have trouble putting myself in Sullivan's mind, for example. Perhaps a belief in inerrant and fundamental American greatness and benevolence lets them paper over all the contradictions and horrors.
I always find it hard to put myself in the mind of these Natsec people because I assume they have to genuinely believe that their worldview is correct and that what they are doing is good.
I think you said it best when you mention "abstraction". The only way you could believe in a worldview so terrible and contradictory is if it was highly abstract.
Yeah, I have trouble putting myself in Sullivan's mind, for example. Perhaps a belief in inerrant and fundamental American greatness and benevolence lets them paper over all the contradictions and horrors.