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Giving Hawks A Bad Name

Watch as MichaelGoldfarb makes at least three statements either appalling or ignorant in the space of a few minutes.  In the span of about eight minutes, he cheered the idea of sending ground forces into Pakistan, identified China as a fascist state and (only half-jokingly) assented to the invasion of Liechtenstein.  The man is a walking parody of neoconservatives’ obsession with labeling everything objectionable “fascist” and their reflexive militarism.

P.S. On a related hobby-horse of mine, Mr. Hounshell annoyingly calls the Chinese government an “autocracy,” but his analysis is otherwise pretty sound.

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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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