Asymptosis: Always Approaching

Tag: Foreign policy

  • Demilitarize U.S. Foreign Policy: Mullen Agrees with Gates (and Me)

    AFP: US forces chief urges less military use in foreign policy. The top US military officer cautioned against ever growing militarization of US foreign policy, urging greater support for civilian approaches to the world’s problems. … “We must be just as bold in providing options when they don’t involve our participation or our leadership, or,…

  • Fareed Zakaria for President

    I just came across Fareed Zakaria's The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad at my mother's house, read it, and came away wildly impressed. His basic thesis is that what we want is constitutional liberalism (classic sense of liberalism, as in Milton Friedman's usage, though not necessarily via his prescriptions)–not a priori,…