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Brandon Zaffini posted the following Ron Paul video at Ricochet: Zaffini writes: The Ron Paul campaign recently released a video dealing with foreign policy, focusing particularly on the opinions of returning Veterans. As a Vet myself, I was thrilled to see this video. I’m beginning to feel as though my voice, and the voice of [...]
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I missed Noah Millman’s comment on Vaclav Havel and Iraq from earlier this month. Millman wrote: He [Havel] had every reason to trust the United States in its estimation of the Iraqi threat. And he had every reason to believe that the NATO Alliance and the United Nations between them held out the best hope [...]
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Conor Friedersdorf read Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Rick Santorum, and found that Santorum still doesn’t know what he’s talking about: Remember that Santorum isn’t someone who proudly proclaims his ignorance of foreign policy, like Herman Cain, who at least promised that he’d get advisers more knowledgeable than he was. Santorum really thinks he knows his [...]
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Earlier this month, Noah Millman considered the consequences of a Ron Paul victory in Iowa: But if Paul wins Iowa, and does well in New Hampshire, he’ll have established that, in a post-9-11 world, there is room not to toe the line on foreign policy questions, room for someone with pragmatic views more like Dick [...]
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Mohammed Al-Diyali, an Iraqi who is about to become a U.S. citizen, has written a moving account of the damage that the war has done to his native country: But even these small victories, like ours, have come at a huge price. We’ve all seen so many people die, so many people worn away from [...]
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Jim Antle makes a fair point that some antiwar voters don’t take Huntsman’s hawkishness on Iran seriously: Certainly Ron Paul, with his actual opposition to the war in Iraq and any subsequent preventive war against Iran, has a stronger case to make to such voters. But I can tell you anecdotally there are still antiwar [...]
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Jonathan Tobin looks back on Santorum’s disastrous re-election bid: The other reason he lost in a landslide was the war in Iraq. Santorum was a strong supporter of the war and bore the brunt for its unpopularity. Though the issue had little resonance at the time, Santorum also made concern about Iran and its nuclear [...]
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Matthew Kroenig’s pro-war essay on Iran in Foreign Affairs has received a lot of attention. Many others have ably identified and criticized the essay’s many flaws, so I won’t repeat most of those arguments here. Matt Duss picks up on one of the most far-fetched claims in the essay, which is that an attack may [...]
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Michael Brendan Dougherty explains the Huntsman campaign’s decision to run an attack ad against Ron Paul: This attack ad signals that the Huntsman campaign no longer sees itself as vying for Mitt Romney’s spot, as the GOP’s preferred Establishment candidate, but sees itself as competing to be the next “not-Romney.” To do that, they have [...]
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Peggy Noonan ponders the mysteries of the 2012 presidential race: The continuing mystery of phase one? The failure of Jon Huntsman to gain traction. It’s not precisely a mystery—he didn’t run as a successful conservative two-term governor but as a striped pants diplomat—but it is a frustration. Democrats like him, a lot. New Hampshire has [...]
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