Here I only take an excerpt from "Why Liberalism Means Empire", hoping to bring you some inspiration.
*Note: The original author is not against democracy and freedom, nor is he a supporter of imperialism or hegemony, nor is he anti-American.
The following is an excerpt from the original text:
Democracy is not the end of history, it is the product of power.
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Today's liberal anti-imperialists, both libertarian and progressive, make the same mistakes that the British pacifists and the interwar American non-interventionists did...they believe that liberalism has left the empire as well. possible.
In fact, there is very little historical evidence for this. When libertarians point out how economically free city-states like Hong Kong* or Singapore are, they ignore the historically set imperial strategic context for these city-states. No city-state can withstand the military might of a superpower, so the liberalism of a city-state usually depends entirely on the liberalized security conditions that a great empire created.
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Just as there are idealists who deny that a peaceful order built by power is the foundation upon which liberal democracy depends, so there are other, more dangerous idealists who deny that power is a finite commodity that cannot be The magic of ideas "turns a stone into gold".
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Liberal democracy depends on empires, and there are strict limits on what empires can accomplish.
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Conservative realists know that for a long time to come, the United States has no other possibility than to be free and democratic, and that liberal democracy requires a delicate balance of international security, a balance maintained by empire or hegemony is not only easy To be overthrown by some tyrannical external power, such as Napoleon's France, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, and possibly by local liberals who are keen to revolutionize and promote democracy.
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Conservative realists stress four important points when thinking about American hegemony today. First, good judgment must be exercised to discern which conflicts are essential.
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If liberalism is at heart imperial, or, more elegantly, hegemonic, it is equally certain that the only safe liberal order is one maintained by offshore balance, not by land-based crusade.
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In the case of great empires, attempts to actively transform other regimes are often too hasty. Power preserves the strategic, economic, and cultural environment in which other states can pursue their self-proclaimed liberalism. Strength cannot save souls, or to borrow a conservative mantra, it cannot "build heaven on earth" or hasten "the end of history."
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Because liberal democracy is not actually the end of history, and may and will disappear in the long run, its limited resources, moral, military, and economic, must not be wasted on utopian delusions. If liberal democracy is to survive as long as possible, its strategic stance must be realistic and conservative.
Liberal democracy is unnatural, it is a product of strength and security, not the sociability of human nature. It is peculiar rather than universal, accidental rather than deterministic.
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Capture so far.
The original article was published in the American "Conservative" magazine on July 16, 2014, and the author is the magazine's senior editor Daniel McCarthy.
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