ザカリアの結論

「帝国主義的」な対外政策をやめましょう、ということです。

アメリカの対外政策における心理状態を結論の部分で簡潔にうまく表現してます。これもある種の「戦略文化」です。

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Ending Our Imperial Foreign Policy

FAREED ZAKARIA

As George W. Bush's term ended, he had few defenders left in the world of foreign policy. Mainstream commentators almost unanimously agreed the Bush years had been marked by arrogance and incompetence. "Mr. Bush's characteristic failing was to apply a black-and-white mind-set to too many gray areas of national security and foreign affairs," The Post
editorialized. Even Richard Perle, the neoconservative guru, acknowledged recently that "Bush mostly failed to implement an effective foreign and defense policy." There was hope that President Obama would abandon some of his predecessor's rigid ideological stances.

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The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own. The only way to deal with them is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it's imperial policy. And it isn't likely to work in today's world.

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ある意味で「多極化」を意味するようコメントです。彼の新著と同じ路線の主張ですね。