Jeane Kirkpatrick

... she is a giant piece of shit.

That is all the notes I c- I cared to take on Jeane Kirkpatrick.

And boy, that foreign policy would carry on through many administrations beyond that, both Republican and Democrat, unfortunately.

Well, yep.

Well, I think that somebody like Jack Kemp had an understanding of it.

Somebody like Jeane Kirkpatrick has some understanding of it.

But I think you have to meld not just the traditional diplomatic military side, you also have to realize the extraordinary role that economics plays, not in terms of trade disputes, but in terms of creating an environment where other countries can get away from the clutches of our Treasury Department and the International Monetary Fund.

We are giving advice to these countries that qualifies as economic malpractice.

Certainly.

And someone once called me the Israeli Jane Kirkpatrick.

I think she also said something similar about the Democratic Party.

Yes, you are absolutely right that if you look at my positions today, if someone is old enough, they will tell me that they sound exactly like old labor, right? Ben-Gurion, Golda, if you listen to the words, the vision, the description of the kind of the foundational leaders of Israel and what was known as Mapai, as the old labor party, I I will sound very much in that vein.

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An interesting commentary on these rationales came from a liberal Democrat turned conservative Republican named Jean Kirkpatrick, who served as Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations.

She wrote an article for Commentary magazine in November 1979 that criticized the Carter administration's efforts to promote human rights through trade and arms embargoes.

Whether she was right or wrong is immaterial, but she does make an interesting point about the difference between military dictatorships like the ones America supported in the Cold War and the communist regimes springing up with Soviet help.

Which the left love this idea of global citizen, of course.

Once you go down this whole idea of a global citizenry, who are we to decide who comes to this country? You have huge problems about accepting citizens Migrants, if you are one of those global citizen people, you think that everybody should be allowed to come.

So I'm sure this is encouraging his worst instincts.

Michael,

You've still got these Stalinist countries in places like Cuba.

So, yeah, the rules-based order depends on the leadership of these countries, which in those cases has been shocking.

I suppose one good thing is that if you look at Latin America, Latin America is moving to the right.

Trump-aligned candidates have been winning most of the elections in Europe.

The Reagan administration was split over the issue.

Reagan's UN ambassador supported the Argentines.

His defense secretary supported the British.

His secretary of state flew frantically between London and Buenos Aires to negotiate between each side.

She also asked Reagan how he would feel if this was happening in Alaska.

A few days later, there was a vote in the UN Security Council on whether there should be a ceasefire in the Falklands.

The UK was going to veto it, and they wanted the US ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, to do the same.

She did at first, but then

The, the first wave in the '60s and '70s, those thinkers were primarily interested in the welfare state and in domestic policy.

The second wave in the 1980s, so late '70s, '80s, uh, they were, uh, thinkers like Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Uh, they were interested in foreign policy.

They had a very hawkish attitude toward, uh, fighting the Soviet Union.