Claes Ryn, professor, politics, and director, Center for the Study of Statesmanship, was quoted in a Catholic News Service story on U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan.
... “We see here an example of what we call the return of the foreign policy elites,” said Claes Ryn, a professor of politics at The Catholic University of America, Washington, and executive director of its new Center for the Study of Statesmanship. He defined these elites as people who have “shown a disposition since the Second World War to argue that America ought to be a global hegemon. It ought to exercise economic, political and moral leadership,” and that the United States is “an indispensable nation.” ...
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