A Republican president with sound foreign policy instincts (stay with me here) would be crippled by the people staffing his administration. Since a president cannot serve as his own cabinet secretaries, or staff his own agencies at the deputy level, he would have to hire Republican foreign policy hands to do these jobs. Given the […]
Obama Makes the Case for—and Against—Obama
Jeffrey Goldberg has released an epic-length Atlantic Monthly cover story on the “Obama doctrine.” While one is reminded at times of an anonymous Vatican official’s quip about George Weigel’s biography of Pope John Paul II—”It left one with the question: Who is that man in white standing next to George Weigel?”—you have to give it […]
Donald Trump, the GOP, and the Wages of Threat Inflation
During the 1990s, neoconservatives were suffering a terrible case of ennui. Sure, the Clinton administration had expanded NATO and gotten the nation into several brushfire wars in remote locales, but nothing really exciting had happened. After nearly a decade of nothing to write about but peace and prosperity, David Brooks urged the nation to emulate […]
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