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President Trump told the nation yesterday that no Americans were hurt by Iran's missile

attack in response to the death of Major General Qasem Soleimani.

He stated that Iran appears to be standing down and indicated that American forces would

not respond further.

Unsurprisingly, reaction in America to Soleimani's death

has fallen largely along partisan lines. For example, a Fox News commentator stated that

Soleimani was an unparalleled organizer and a pitiless murderer. His death was richly earned.

A CNN commentator, by contrast, called his killing a reckless gamble.

This partisan divide is sadly familiar, of course.

But I recently read an explanation for it that was both insightful and relevant to more than our politics.

New York Times columnist Ross Dutat views American foreign policy through a prism

developed by scholar Walter Russell Meade, who created a famous typology named for four American

statesmen. Hamiltonian, Protection of Commerce, Wilsonian, Moral Principle, Jeffersonian, maintenance of a democratic system,

Jacksonian, populist values and military strength. Dutette describes the Hamiltonians as

business-minded internationalists, cold-eyed instability-oriented and wary of wars that seem idealistic rather

than self-interested. He describes the Wilsonians as idealists, whether neo-conservative or

liberal humanitarian, who regard the United States military as a force for spreading democracy

and protecting human rights. He claims that most

foreign policy leaders in Washington belong to one of these two groups. According to Dutat,

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