There is something ironic about the fact that the American foreign-policy establishment, which is afflicted terribly by the illness of threat inflation, is now inflating the threat of competing ideas. As my colleague Gene Healy has pointed out on the Cato blog, the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute has been fanning the flames of fear not just of [...]
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The Isolationist Charge: The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel Jun. 20 2011 – 1:07 pm | 522 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Today the epithet “isolationist” is the last refuge of the warmonger. Sen. John McCain may be Washington’s most enthusiastic hawk — supporter of war in the Balkans, Afghanistan, [...]
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