by jpitney | Feb 20, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine
Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer at WP: As World War II raged in Europe, Republicans initially opposed U.S. involvement even as proponents argued that helping allies would prevent direct aggression toward the U.S. — the same argument used today to support...
by jpitney | Feb 11, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
Ronald Reagan: As Western Europe, with help from our Marshall plan, rebuilt, all our nations began to face the nature of the Soviet threat to the democracies. And so, beginning with the Brussels treaty in 1948, which established the Western European Union, and then...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2024 | Democracy, Foreign Policy, Public Opinion, Russia, Tocqueville, Ukraine
Tocqueville wrote: “Now, it is this clear perception of the future, based on judgment and experience, which must often be lacking in a democracy. The people feel more strongly than they reason; and if present ills are great, it is to be feared that they will...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2023 | Conservative', Foreign Policy, Military, Republican
Kori Schake at Foreign Affairs: The United States needs a strong and vibrant Republican Party. To make a more coherent case for how it would solve the country’s problems, the party will have to clarify its foreign policy focus. Traditional conservative...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
William Safire discussed the “moral equivalence” arguments of 40 years ago: I checked with William F. Buckley, who helped popularize the current sense of the phrase, and the inventor of modern conservatism reports: ”Moral equivalence is a handy...
by jpitney | Nov 4, 2023 | Foreign Policy
George F. Will at WP: Today, there are three recklessly led nuclear powers — China lawlessly rampant in neighboring seas, Russia trying to violently revise European borders and North Korea. A fourth, Iran, is impending. And now, the post-World War II U.S. consensus...