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On the contrary, some call "compassionate conservatism" an offensive phrase because it suggests that unmodified conservatives lack compassion (just as many liberals complained that Vice President Al Gore's "practical idealism" implied that unmodified idealists were impractical).
This tribute--a bow from the great pessimist of the '90s to the great pessimist of the '70s--revisits Kissinger's 1954 doctoral dissertation and finds it "brave," a persuasive account of why realism keeps the peace better than idealism.
The case against that idealism is that it didn't happen-that big government solutions failed or backfired, that the War on Poverty was lost, and that the racial equality that liberals promised in law remained frustrated by cultural and economic factors they had thought government could easily overcome.
Nor is Clinton's blend of realism and idealism necessarily corrupt.
What others may call idealism is a common sense reality I know we can achieve."