Defcon Blue

There’s a dangerous and incorrect consensus forming on the War in Iraq. It’s bringing together arch conservatives like Bill Crystal and Tony Blankley and moderates and liberals like Hillary Clinton and Thomas Friedman. Conservatives are desperate to explain how their “Grand Idea” of pre-emptively invading Iraq and toppling its dictator, Saddam Hussein went […]

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President Bush’s policy goal in Iraq is a free, democratic and unified Iraq but these goals are incompatible and therefore impossible to achieve. The fundamental problem with our policies in Iraq is that they demonstrate a complete lack of understanding about nationalism, ethnic groups and nation states. Iraq is not a single nation and as […]

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Over the past twenty years, Republicans have successfully positioned themselves as the party that is strong on National Defense. At a time when America and the world are consumed with fear about Islamic radical terrorism, the Democrats need a strong coherent message on national defense. If they do not have one, they […]

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