People don't "owe you" answers or demonstrate their true evil beliefs by refusing to answer you, any more than you owe answers to the obnoxious commentators who you yourself regularly and reasonably blow off, or validate their suspicions by refusing to engage with them.
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
I appreciate why you feel the way you do. The answer EB gave was not a good one. But it is perfectly reasonable for Nikhil to push back against the framing of the question for reasons already discussed and your response is not calculated to make anyone want to engage on substance
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
Henry, why aren't you saying: (1) EB was provoked, and said something really stupid. (2) Nikhil's "identify the bigger problem: the “tankie” idea... [or] the idea that there is no alternative to US eternal military superintendence of the capitalist world-system?" is a... 1/
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Replying to @delong @henryfarrell and
..."Look! Halley's Comet!" distracto response to try to give cover to EB. (3) Places where the U.S. military has been dominant have, over the past 100 years, done better on average then places where the Red Army or the PLA or the Wehrmacht have been dominant... 2/
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Replying to @delong @Noahpinion and
More generally, there are excellent reasons why I am not associated with the Quincy Institute (not that I was ever asked). I strongly disagree with them on multiple questions, including many of those discussed here. But I think US foreign policy discussion is better for them.
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
Well, yes: a FP discussion with a blob and an anti-blob is better than one with a blob alone. I see this even at Berkeley, where of the four wings of IR we ought to have¸—bombs and bullets, world peace through world law, make economies so interdependent that Norman Angell.... 1/
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Replying to @delong @henryfarrell and
...becomes, finally, correct, and Universal Harmonic Convergence—the B&B wing is much too strong, and the others either too weak or much too weak. 2/END
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Replying to @delong @henryfarrell and
The real material manifestation of this is the amount the USA spends on military versus amount it spends on diplomacy.
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But not only U.S. Suharto to JFK, after JFK had flown to Jakarta and given an economic development presentation: "Mr. President, development takes too long. Please give me Irian Jaya instead." (According to Walt Whitman Rostow.)
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Sure, there are militarist allies as well as militarist hegemons. Proper to criticize both.
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