The grand utopian idea to remake the world, not understanding human complexities and failing miserably in Iraq and now wishing to further that shame in Iran......
When are Conservatives going to learn that the world is not black and white... amny shades of colours in between....!!!!!
2007-10-26 06:39:28 · 19 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
SOURCE... BBC WORLD
2007-10-26 06:40:16 · update #1
"You are either with us or against us." - Pres. George W. Bush, in a joint news conference with French President Jacques Chirac Nov. 6, 2001.
This quote should speak volumes about Bush's inability (or refusal) to put things in perspective and understand such complexities.
2007-10-26 07:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 3⤋
You mischaracterize philosophical realism and philosophical idealism. You seem to be referring to political realism and idealism, and as such this question should be in politics. Philosophical idealism is the view that existence is entirely mind-dependent, that is, that the only things that exist are ideas. Realism is the view that existence is mind-independent, that is, is an external world that persists and is the way it is whatever we think about it. Since one view says all existence is mind-dependent, and the other says all existence is mind independent, the only "middle ground" is substance dualism, the idea that the world of ideas and the world of physical things both exist. Descartes famously advocated this view, but it's so riddled with really serious conceptual problems that it's not taken widely taken seriously as a philosophical view. The reasons that it is not taken seriously are often rehashed in introduction to philosophy classes because they themselves are interesting issues.
2016-04-10 07:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by Aline 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be Honest with you i dont think bush is an idealist in the least.
I dont think he is much of anything except the
mouth piece for Cheney and his ciricle of friends who make the plans in the back room.
2007-10-26 12:36:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
seldom understands much of anything.
but americans understand him. observe: http://www.lepow.com/tag/
"The causes and consequences of war may have more to do with pathology than with politics, more to do with irrational pressures of pride and pain than with rational calculation of advantage and profit." ~ Senator William Fulbright (in The Arrogance of Power)
2007-10-26 07:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, clearly not. I don't think he even lives in this world at all. Actually,I have often wondered if his problem is he is just incredibly stupid, incredibly closed off from the real world, crazy, or just does not care and wants to keep padding his pockets and that of his cronies without concern for the common good.
2007-10-26 06:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by Fencing and Kung Fu mom 2 · 6⤊ 5⤋
He's totally oblivious about both concepts let alone understand the balance. Too many words for the Cowboy from Texas
2007-10-26 06:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 7⤊ 5⤋
he's making the same kind of political mistakes the soviets made, only in this case, it isn't the political philosophy that's too idealistic, its the assumption that much of the middle east is either ready or willing to accept democratic forms of self-governing
2007-10-26 06:43:35 · answer #7 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 4⤊ 6⤋
I think you need to look in the mirror and ask that question. The very fact that you and most liberals find it so easy to judge and put Bush in a nice little box shows who the true idealists are.
2007-10-26 06:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 8⤋
The only -ism that Bush understands is capitalism.
2007-10-26 06:43:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 5⤋
He still can't pronounce the word nuclear, of course he doesn't understand idealism and realism.
2007-10-26 06:43:54 · answer #10 · answered by crazy2all 6 · 7⤊ 7⤋