Synopsis:
- Critique of Liberalism
- The political is, ultimately, a friend/enemy distinction
- Armed force used to be a means to achieve limited territorial goals
- European nation-states fought territorial wars
- Wars became increasingly ideological
- America developed a universal friend/enemy distinction
- America makes a universal claim for its moral values ("liberal democracy")
- The American wars became a crusade for universal goodness against a criminalized enemy
- America's mission became to export "liberal democracy"
- American politics tends toward a universal state
- Soviet expansionism was a primitive military despotism
- American expansionism is ideological in nature
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