Compare Mearsheimer position to the likes of Habermas, Žižek , and Bernie Sanders. “I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. ” Related Peter Gowan on Mearsheimer
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51