https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/02/11/real-and-fake-realism/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:15:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/02/11/real-and-fake-realism/comment-page-1/#comment-7581 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:15:09 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1513#comment-7581 I think even more it was the realists who brought us arming and supporting Saddam in the first place, as a bulwark against Iran. Some of whom, of course, were the people most ardently ready to spend blood and treasure to bring him down later on.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/02/11/real-and-fake-realism/comment-page-1/#comment-7579 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:11:24 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1513#comment-7579 Interesting to go back to the debates Post Iraq War I – when there were mass, open rebellions among the Kurds and Shia – it would not have taken much overt or covert assistance to allows those to depose Sadam by 1992. Instead the US was quiet except for the no-fly zones and some modest help for the kurds. Is that an example of the realists or the idealists winning out?

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