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Jonathan Tobin declares that Santorum has the “best grasp of foreign policy” of any of the current candidates. Rod anticipates objections from commenters: I know, I know, foreign policy. I know. Please, enough about the neocons. It makes me unhappy, but your average Republican voter is more likely to agree with Rick Santorum on foreign [...]
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N.L. at Democracy in America explains why lunar colonization is a terrible idea: Money can be made without creating a lunar colony, but it seems colonisation in and of itself is Mr Gingrich’s goal. And that presents a problem. We already know that short periods of near-zero gravity are extremely unhealthy for adults. They suffer [...]
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Bill Kristol is reduced to looking for signs and portents: In case you believe in portents: On February 3, 2008, the New York Giants upset the heavily favored New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Two days later, John McCain won a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday, clinching the nomination and completing his upset comeback [...]
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John Fund writes that Romney is failing to assume the leadership of the conservative movement: Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to realize he is campaigning for two jobs, not one. He is doing quite well in the race to become the Republican nominee for president, and must still be considered the strong favorite. But ever since [...]
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Alex Massie makes an interesting observation about Santorum’s victories: His victories in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri last night, added to his performance in Iowa, show one thing is certain: outside Nevada, Mitt Romney has a problem in any state that holds a caucus. This is interesting because it is a complete reversal of Romney’s experience [...]
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I was getting ready to write up my belated reaction to Santorum’s three wins, but I see that Michael has already summed it up: Romney is currently in the McCain position. And Santorum is in Romney’s position four years ago. A quick review of the 2008 results mostly confirms this. McCain did not do very [...]
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Jonah Goldberg wants to revive the lousy “league of democracies” idea: What would be so terrible about giving those good nations someplace else to meet? And by good, I mean democratic. A league, or concert, of democracies wouldn’t replace the U.N., but it would offer some much-needed competition. We’ve had to go around the U.N. [...]
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David Blair makes an excellent point on the Syrian crisis: The essential problem is that Britain and her allies have two incompatible objectives [bold mine-DL]: they want to hasten the downfall of President Assad, while also bringing the country’s bloodshed to an end. You can’t do both at the same time [bold mine-DL]. Accelerating the [...]
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Matt Steinglass gets a bit carried away: Ten years back, America often found itself isolated, struggling to pull together “coalitions of the willing” packed with small client states. Lately, we have been finding ourselves in the majority, along with the democratic world, while Russia and China front a dwindling coalition of the unwilling. Right, because [...]
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David Bosco challenges Walt on his recent Libya/Syria remarks: But there is something profoundly disorienting about a self-proclaimed realist making this kind of argument. Is Walt saying that the West should have not pursued its strategic goal of ousting Gaddafi out of deference to the fine points of a Security Council resolution? (From a narrow [...]
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