And yet we can also choose to set our ridiculous egos aside, stop puffing ourselves up trying to "be somebody" by maintaining policies of "strength" and "competition" and choose to be generous and inclusive.
The following year, in its founding "statement of principles", the now notorious neocon Project for the New American Century called for a "Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity".
Rejecting 41's realpolitik and shaping what would become 43's pre-emption strategy, they exhorted a "Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity," with America extending its domain by challenging "regimes hostile to our interests and values".
The latest confrontation with Mr. Hussein comes at a time when the Republicans in Congress are split between isolationist and interventionist factions and the conservative intelligentsia have been calling for the party to rearticulate a "Reaganite foreign policy" of military strength.
At his CFR speech last week, Mr Rubio made the case for a hawkish foreign policy of "American strength [as] a means of preventing war, not promoting it"—another classic neocon formulation.
Meanwhile, Jackson was pushing for war with Iraq in his capacity as executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the neocon think tank that was created in 1997 and called for a return to "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity".
Wolfowitz and Jeb Bush have held similar foreign policy ideas since at least 1997, when they were both signatories to a set of principles devised by the conservative Project for the New American Century, which were described by the group as a "Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity".
This article is designed to examine the implementation status of these policies, potential areas of strength and weakness, and further steps in policy development to support youth transitioning from foster care.
He has surrounded himself with advisers whose centre of gravity leans towards liberal interventionism, as he has shown by his declared policy of boosting troop strength in Afghanistan.
Designed as a symbol of Hadrian's contemporary-sounding policy of "peace through strength", the wall marked the northern frontier of the Roman empire.
