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14 Aug 2008 07:05 pm
Liberals And The Empire
A reader writes:
I think you downplay the important role that liberal interventionists have
played in fostering an imperial America. Remember that the prudence
demonstrated by Bush 41, who refused to dance on the Berlin Wall, was
repudiated by Clinton, who pushed NATO expansion down Russia's throat
even though the entire rationale for NATO had vanished. It was Clinton
that established the self-evidently hypocritical precedent that America
has the right to define its interests in Russia's near-abroad (i.e.
Kosovo) but that Russia had no similar entitlement if it contradicted
America's wishes.
In other words, liberals got the ball rolling here. I'd also note
that Obama has not only NOT repudiated this, he has echoed McCain's
call for Georgia in NATO. He is in no way offering a rebuke of the
imperial status quo. He is affirming it.
Yes, he is.
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