China Threat Debate: John J. Mearsheimer (6 of 11)

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[ebbsterjcw]

Dr Mearsheimer is not a neoconservative(who would be more aptly referred to as neoliberals). He is a realist. Further, anyone interested in international relations would be well advised to read his works, particularly The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Mearsheimer would never advocate the type of neoliberal foreign policy regime that the Bush administration has.

[Lgrande08]

@Duantuideguaiwu canada is gay go play hockey and hold hands with the french HOMO!!

[srdtpa]

Increasingly I think the U.S. megalomania and paranoia will eventually lead to a global nuclear war.

[gettingahandle]

A world dominated by a comunist government that might be more powerful than america? Would I want that for my kids???? Like a hole in the head!

[twelvemast]

I am a Taiwanese, or in other term a Chinese from Taiwan where people are not under the mainland China's regime.

We Chinese deserve everyright to live under democracy and the same common living standards ought to be shared by all human beings.

Becoming a great power for China isn't the main issue of world-threatening.

The real issue is that the de-Confucianized autocratic gang of the communist China has lost Chinese ancestor's sense of moral and goodness, and hence becomed unreliable to all!

[OsamaBinWeinstein]

Ebbsterjcw is right - if you want good neocon minds, look to Kristol and Kagan... Mearsheimer's and Walt's more neutral-realist publications work well if read concurrently with the neocon theorists. Also look at Huntington's CLASH of CIVILIZATIONS.

[Simon69ification]

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE are all allies of the US, they don't need Israel and he Mearsheimer doesn't bring Israel up in this conversation.

[lionofthejungle]

I get the feeling that his arguments here are somewhat antithetical to the arguments in his book about the Israel Lobby. According to his book, it is in the best interest of the U.S. to abandon Israel, but at the same time, Israel is what allows the U.S. to ascertain its power in the middle-east. This just seems like a contradiction.

[Duantuideguaiwu]

I live in Canada and I don't go to bed worried the US is gonna attack us. And if I could choose to make Canada more powerful I wouldn't. United States fucking sucks, baaaaadly. I'm so fuckin' happy I was born just enough north so I wouldn't be labelled a fuckin american. God damn that country is garbage.

[Duantuideguaiwu]

Holy fuck this guy's retarded. Neocon, neolib, whatever you call him, he's fundamentally retarded.

[chapsroc]

Oops! I meant 'breathing on the little frog's little belly..." I meant to say that as the frog stood up it could only looks backward 'cos its eyes being positioned on top of its head, it could not see anything in the forward direction.