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Before The Fall (II)

It seems to me that if there is one place in this country where Romney’s “it’s about Shia and Sunni and a caliphate on top” ignorant belligerence will be received very poorly, it is in Iowa.  As many have observed, Iowa runs ahead of the country in antiwar sentiment.  Iowans generally don’t like interventionist wars, and most Iowa Republicans are fed up with Iraq.  Meanwhile, Romney’s foreign policy vision promises unending foreign conflict against any and every Muslim group whose name he can be trained to recite.  If there is any consistency between what Iowa Republicans say they want and how they vote (and there may not be), Romney should be in a lot of trouble.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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