John J. Mearsheimer

Did people tend to disagree?

And I actually think that's a wonderful thing.

And this gets back to our whole discussion of the media, the mainstream media, and the fact that we have so few views that challenge the conventional wisdom represented in the mainstream media.

This is not a healthy...

phenomenon.

What you want is you want lots of people with different views to contend with each other and for them to fight it out.

And I don't mean fight it out in a nasty way.

Fight it out in a professional way, for lack of a better phrase.

But anyway, I find that when I go talk

to groups or when my podcasts appear on the internet, that I get lots and lots of people who applaud me.

And nevertheless, at the same time, will, I won't say often, but will sometimes criticize my views on particular issues at the same time they're applauding me.

And I do not feel bad about that at all.

I think that's the way the business should work.

I'm not a proselytizer.

You know, I'm not going on your show or going on any other show to tell people the truth and tell them that they should accept the truth from John Mearsheimer.

What I'm trying to do is talk in a very intelligent way, as you are, about how we think about particular issues.

And of course, people are sometimes going to agree with us and sometimes disagree with us.

That's wonderful.

And

What's happening here is that in the vast majority of cases, I think people take their bearing from what we have to say.