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This will be my last post for at least a couple of weeks. I’m getting married this weekend, so I’ll be away from writing for a while. In the meantime, check in at the main blog. If you are able, please support the magazine and the website by donating during our current fundraising drive.
Filed under: miscellaneous, politics
“I’m not a class-warfare guy,” Santorum tells National Review Online in reaction to Pawlenty’s remarks. “That’s the Democrats’ gig. They like to divide and play the class card. We don’t have classes in America — I don’t even like the term ‘middle class.’ People are lower income or middle income, and the dynamism of this [...]
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The conservative responses to Jacob Heilbrunn’s Foreign Policy article, “The End of the Establishment,” have been almost uniformly negative. Heilbrunn slips up in a couple places, especially when he sets up a fairly simple opposition between “pragmatic” internationalists on one side and neoconservatives and unilateralist nationalists on the other. Many neoconservatives are often unilateralist and [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
No, Russia is not “in the lead” in isolating Iran. Yes, the “reset” is working in other ways, but it is still correct to argue that the last round of sanctions was significantly weakened in order to gain Russian and Chinese support. Anything resembling “biting” or “crippling” or severe sanctions of any kind was never [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
Jim Antle answers my criticisms of recent Republican and conservative critics of the war in Afghanistan: I’d only offer two rejoinders. The first is that any successful political movement is going to include its share of opportunists. In the 1990s, the last time conservative Republicans opposed wars and nation-building exercises in large numbers, you saw [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
By chance, my column on Romney and START has come out on the same day that National Review has provided Romney with another opportunity to embarrass himself. Mitt Romney seems not to have learned anything from the thorough thrashing his first op-ed against START ratification received, as he has written a response to Sen. Lugar’s [...]
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The takeout, from a first, fast reading: the U.S. is frustrated by evidence of continued Pakistani support for Afghan insurgents, and the war is not going well, according to the soldiers fighting it. Neither of those facts is breaking news to anyone who’s been paying attention to the war, but the coordinated delivery of the [...]
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My new column on Republican opposition to START ratification for The Week is now online.
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
So, yes, libertarians should find a friendlier home in the GOP if their priority is pushing the traditional GOP agenda of low taxes and weaker regulation of the economy. But should this be their priority? Over the same period that saw libertarian priorities in economics relatively ascendant, we have seen a distinctly negative trend in [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
One of my commenters alerted me to House Res. 1553, which states: Expressing support for the State of Israel’s right to defend Israeli sovereignty, to protect the lives and safety of the Israeli people, and to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics