I'm not defending Mao or Stalin. I'm critiquing utopian thinking, including that of Mao and Stalin. Communists pursued a utopia, and neoconservatives are pursuing their own utopia modelled on Chicago school economics and liberal democracy.

We should pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy and not force our way of life, which itself is a compromise between different groups, onto other countries. Other countries need to come to a different modus vivendi compromise between themselves and with us, and have as much right to sovereignty as we do.