“In other words, multicultural foreign policy is a sophisticated and politically-correct version of the old, far more intellectually honest realist notion that we let the bastards do what they want to their own people, and then deal with the thug that emerges in the real world of mutual self-interest.”
There’s the money quote: Hansen gets it - “sophisticated” is code for “intellectually dishonest person who’s not willing to stand on principle”.
Colonel, USAFR
We are overlooking the fact that Obama actually supports Ahmadinejadl who is the dearest friend of his much admired Hugo Chavez.