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Who are the ideologues?(National Security)
David Frum and Richard Perle, "Beware the Soft-Line Ideologues" AEI on the Issues, January 2004 (aei.org)
America's foreign policy debates are dominated by tension between hard-liners and soft-liners. Soft-line thinkers, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, support working through international organizations like the United Nations. Hard-liners, such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, support unilateral action when necessary and are very willing to use military force against terrorists.
Richard Perle and David Frum, both AEI fellows, say that hard-liners have won nearly all of the major policy battles, but soft liners have had near-total control over the way those battles are portrayed in the media. Reporters call soft-liners "pragmatists," while hard-liners are branded as "ideologues." In fact, Perle and Frum argue, the real ideologues are the soft-liners who refuse to let facts get in the way of elegant theories. Among the several countries and regions they use to support this claim, two stand out.
In the case of Iran, say Frum and Perle, "Soft-liners tend to think that ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Who are the ideologues?(National Security)