Reply #51: no

[ithacan]

as I said I reject all of them, or in Aidoneus's words, "A Pox on all your schools."

IrateCitizen is right. I reject Jeffersonianism in part because of this:
Jeffersonians, in contrast, believe that the United States is something better and different.

This in fact is one of the biggest problems with the US, this arrogance and unwillingness to see others as anything other than a) good, ie clones of us; or b) bad, ie different from us.

All of these "schools" are framed in terms of the US's interests. I think that is wrong.

All of these are incredibly US-centric. I understand that. Because all of these are coming out of a very narrow and provincial US experience that focuses on the US in narrowly nationalistic terms.

I think it is wrong to put the lives and interests of Americans above the lives of nonAmericans, for example. I understand most Americans do not see it this way. But I do believe that if the US is going to use force, and thus kill civilians, it should do so only if it was willing to see its own small children be killed to achieve the same goals, for example.

I have to admit that before I actually experienced things outside of the US I was probably a wilsonian. But my experiences abroad, including relationships with nonAmericans, has led me to see US foreign policy as problematic for all of the reasons spelled out in each of the "schools" listed above.