“We are convulsed with self-hate, while China is convulsed with self-love”.
Andrew Sullivan talking with John Mearsheimer on January 29. And strikes me as pretty much spot on.
An occasional reader says of Mearsheimer: “I used to respect his views, but now see him as an old man that is out for blood”. Well! Ad hominem, much?
Me: well, that makes me an “old man out for blood”. I guess. Or something. Because that above seems kind of spot on to me. And Mearsheimer’s analysis of realism/realpolitik I find more persuasive that the accommodationists like Hugh White.
