The lede of Charles Krauthammer’s latest:
Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wobbliest one-world instincts is not a close call.
I find this pretty striking. The case for McCain is that the previous eight years of conservative national security policy have worked so badly that we can ill-afford to abandon them. The world is dangerous! We’re facing uncontrolled nuclear proliferation! Clearly, says Krauthammer, you can’t change horses amidst a stream like that. But whose fault is it that the world is so dangerous? Whose fault is it that we’re facing uncontrolled nuclear proliferation? Could it be that when conservative governance keeps making things more and more dangerous, that the right option is to stop having conservative governance?
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