Hegseth Declares End to U.S. 'Utopian Idealism'

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21. Mmmm. I don't remember policy makers ever calling post Eisenhower era

American "Utopian Idealism".
WTF? That's so Victorian. Or Early Soviet
I've heard the "era" we are in called the American Soft Policy era; during the Cold War, it was called the American Containment policy Era
I've also heard the Reagan Era to current called the Era of American Hegemony.
But "Utopian Idealism"? Sounds like nothing any of the former Presidents would promote, because despite what other Authoritarians and Autocracies that have been in the cross hairs of US policy might have imagined we thought of ourselves, the US has never thought of itself as a Utopia.
Unless, of course, you were a Wealthy Religious nutjob or their spoiled Nepo-babies.