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Was John Quincy Adams actually a "neo-con"?

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Shadi Hamid
May 24, 2023
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I’ve been thinking about the force of ideas. I phrase it this way deliberately because there’s a question of whether ideas need to be equipped with or defended by hard power in order to prosper and spread.

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