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Originally Posted by rubberneck
While Bolton might be considered a "radical" in terms of his style he is not in any way shape or form a radical in terms of international policy. Unorthodox maybe but certainly no radical and neither was Don Rumsfeld for that matter.
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To the realist intellectual bedrock of Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Morgenthau, Kennan, and Mearsheimer they do. Same with realist statesman like Kissenger, Brzezinski, and Scowcroft. To the likes of Woodrow Wilson they don't.
I fail to see how democratic peace theory is rule rather then the exception in American foreign policy history, and is not "radical" in a historical context.