Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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You know, I really think the left and the liberal Democrats have a lot of responsibility for where we are today.
That's what I blame...
not just the left, but sort of the liberal left and the realists are also about this, which is precisely that the bipartisan foreign policy establishment led us to failure.
It wasn't a failure.
I mean, you know, in that is taking for granted the American order, which is now going to collapse.
OK.
And as people use to say, Walter Mead has said this like dozens of times, you know, the last 25 years, the last 30 years have been the biggest failure of American foreign policy in history.
And I'm like, do you know any history at all?
Because pick
Which 30 years do you like better?
Do you like the first 30 years of the 20th century when we had World War I?
Did you like the second part where we had World War II?
I mean, which 30 years have been better than this?
Yes, we've gotten into some conflicts that have not worked out.
Exactly.
Exactly.
This has actually been a period of great American success because, again, the world order remained intact, even under presidents who I didn't think were fully committed to it, like Barack Obama.
It nevertheless remained intact.
He didn't walk away from it.
And the consequence of that order was no conflicts among great powers, which is, you know, for decades, which is not the norm.
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