It also is unlikely that American foreign policy will return to a narrow realism and drop all emphasis on democracy and human rights. While the Iraq War discredited the idea of coercive democratization, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of idealism in their foreign policy orientations.
美国的对外政策也不大可能回到狭隘的现实主义，而不再强调民主和人权。尽管伊拉克战争令强制民主化的理念声名狼藉，共和党和民主党人在他们的对外政策取向中仍保持着强烈的理想主义色彩。