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...Ideal Idealists Re Walter Isaacson's "The Return of the Realists" [Nov. 20]: I am sure the neoconservatives would like the American people to believe that they led us into Iraq because they are altruistic and idealistic lovers of democracy, and not because they were trying to secure Iraq's considerable oil supplies for our continuing fossil-fuel gluttony. They appear to have persuaded Isaacson, however, because his column did not even mention the subject of Iraq's oil. Nevertheless, they will have a harder time convincing many other Americans. Cary Dictor San Leandro, California...
...disagree with Isaacson's argument that idealism needs to be tempered with realism. Idealists do not lie. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their position that deception is not an option. They hold the moral high ground in policy debates and do not create false impressions, like the current President. Idealists promoting democracy would never trample on civil liberties or imprison people without recourse to due process of law. Jeff T. Barrie Philomath, Oregon...
...Iraq), with stays of two to four years in the U.S. and European countries, should be launched. I remember gratefully the liberation of Germany at the end of World War II and the subsequent favorable social, cultural and economic development. Gerhard Fritsch Nuremberg, Germany The Ideal Idealists Re Walter Isaacson's "The return of the realists" [Nov. 20]: I am sure the neoconservatives would like the American people to believe that they led us into Iraq because they are altruistic and idealistic lovers of democracy, and not because they were trying to secure Iraq's considerable oil supplies...
...Return of the Realists" [Nov. 20]: I am sure the neoconservatives would like the American people to believe that they led us into Iraq because they are idealistic lovers of democracy, and not because they were trying to secure Iraq's considerable oil supplies. They appear to have persuaded Isaacson, however, because his column did not even mention the subject of Iraq's oil. Nevertheless, they will have a harder time convincing many other Americans...
...realism and idealism have been complementary strands in our foreign policy. The goal, now as ever, is not to pick one over the other or to blur the distinction between them. Instead, it's to weave them together in the right combination so that they reinforce each other. ?Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME, is president of the Aspen Institute and author of biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger