Realism Versus Idealism

Sol Sanders writes about turmoil in China and realism versus idealism in U.S. foreign policy.
The China story is here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/8/sanders-beijings-nightmare-scenario/
The article about U.S. foreign policy is here: http://yeoldecrabb.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/the-hard-choices/

I particularly enjoyed the latter article, because it talks about how Obama rejects historic stories of American exceptionalism, yet he has sent a force of 100 American troops into Africa to try to help capture Joseph Kony. Who is Joseph Kony? "After a quarter of a century inaction, the Obama Administration has sent a 100-man military detachment to try to help Ugandans and other Central African governments capture and bring to justice one of the world’s greatest monsters, Joseph Kony, leader of his misbegotten “Lords Resistance Army”. For almost three decades this personification of evil has kidnapped and trained thousands of children in mass murder, seemingly without any aim other than inflicting terror and exerting his personal power."