Beijing and Moscow could hardly seem less eager to join in ideological crusades.
This last criteria is judged on the basis of whether the nominee is "running an ideological crusade".
But of course there is Ms Buck, it's nothing less than an ideological crusade against the poor.
She would do well to emulate Acheson's abhorrence of ideological crusades.
That motive is not, as many liberals would have it, a simple ideological crusade to gut the Bill of Rights.
That idea has been an ideological crusade for a number of conservative thinkers.
This then motivates those on the other side of the spectrum to launch their own ideological 'crusade' to prevent any such change happening.
But Gingrich's revolutionary freshmen refused to budge from their ideological crusade to dismantle the power of the federal government.
Decisions about which method to use in particular cases should be made by educators studying facts, not by politicians or voters on ideological crusades.
Begun as an ideological crusade, the war has now settled into something bloody, murderous and crude, with no "exit strategy" in sight.