WW2 is a consequence in large part of conflicting romantic ideas. This also was a “neocon” idea. This was one of the themes of Strauss.
Maybe so.
But the big problem is pushing every foreign policy issue from Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Saddam-Kuwait, Somalia, Rwanda, to Serbia, to Saddam, to the Taliban to the Ukraine War into the lessons of “Hitler Revisited! Resist Aggression or 6 million will die !”