Realist of the distinction of Hans Morgenthau and Henry Kissinger have noted with disapproval how this has resulted in both a tendency to retreat into an isolationism that deliberately avoids “entanglement” (to use President Washington’s loaded term) with the flawed old world of European power politics and a tendency of engage in an undifferentiated globalism that in the name of idealist principles seeks to make the world a better place in the American image.