I think most Americans believe that although it’s better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn’t provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Meaning of the quote
Most Americans think it's better not to use military force if we can avoid it. But the world doesn't let us ignore military power as an important way to make decisions about foreign policy. We can't just get rid of military force as a tool for how we deal with other countries.
About Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is an American columnist and political scientist who is known as a neoconservative scholar and a critic of U.S. foreign policy. He was a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and has served as a foreign policy adviser to both Republican and Democratic administrations. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Kagan left the Republican Party due to the party’s nomination of Donald Trump and endorsed the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
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I think most Americans believe that although it’s better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn’t provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
American historian (born 1958)