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 Warning: there are graphic expressions in this article US foreign policy has always relied on favourite dictators

As it stands today, the so-called progressive foreign policy alternative is really no alternative at all. To the contrary, it evokes Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s seminal work,  The Leopard , whose main character, Tancredi,  sagely observes to his uncle , “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” So it is with much of what passes for a genuine foreign policy alternative: the rhetoric slightly changes, the personnel certainly change, but in substance, the policy status quo largely remains.