Is America in Retreat (2014) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 21 / 100 (CHUD-leaning (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Bret Stephens, 2014.
22 votes: 23% WOKE, 77% CHUD.
Why: Foreign policy hawk, center-right
In a brilliant book that will elevate foreign policy in the national conversation, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Bret Stephens makes a powerful case for American intervention abroad. In December 2011 the last American soldier left Iraq. "We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq," boasted President Obama. He was proved devastatingly wrong less than three years later as jihadists seized the Iraqi city of Mosul. The event cast another dark shadow over the future of global order -- a shadow, which, Bret Stephens argues, we ignore at our peril. America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to d…