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American Foring Policy

2007-03-01 04:00:12 · 4 answers · asked by burhankaya18 1 in Politics & Government Politics

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For me, they are two sides of the same coin. Ideally, the US engages in the spread of democracy, because eventually, that will bring world peace.

Realistically, we will never have world peace, because people like to fight.

2007-03-01 04:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0 1

Pearl S. Buck:
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Marian Wright Edelman:
It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
John F. Kennedy:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Bill Moyers:
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Salman Rushdie:
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
[This last quote, though not related to it, seems to me to speak to the use of "intelligence" to rush into the Iraq debacle.]

2007-03-01 12:19:28 · answer #2 · answered by foolrex 2 · 0 0

Idealism is thinking that spelling Foring, will be understood as meaning Foreign. Realism, is learning the difference. Suggest that you study remedial English and school will become a lot easier. Best wishes

2007-03-01 12:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by tylernmi 4 · 0 1

Idealism is looking at things from a philosophical or romantic perspective. You try to glorify and interpret things. Realism is just what it is, as is.

2007-03-01 12:07:26 · answer #4 · answered by Gary W 4 · 0 1

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