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Needlenose | We Needle. You Decide.
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Kevin Drum asks a question about With All Our Might, the latest no-we're-tough-really posturing from the Democratic Leadership Council stable of foreign policy thinkers:
. . . reading [it] crystallized in my mind a fundamental problem that this volume shares with Peter Beinart's The Good Fight: although both books sound toughminded about national security, they both tiptoe around the most fundamental question of all.
. . . I feel sort of stupid for saying something so obvious, but the argument is about when to use military force. Or, more accurately, I would feel stupid about saying something so obvious if it weren't for the fact that both books seemingly go out of their way to avoid addressing this question. For all their talk about allies and restraint and soft power, would these authors support military strikes on Iran? North Korea? Darfur? . . .
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