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Monday, May 19, 2003
Spend or squander?Instapundit links to this Jonathan Rauch piece in Reason about the Iraq invasion. Did Bush "squander" world support after September 11 — as we've argued more than once on Radio Free Mike — or "spend" it, on a bold new foreign policy? Rauch says he spent it, wisely:
Bush is no sophisticate, but he has the great virtue — not shared by most sophisticates — of knowing a dead policy when he sees one. So he gathered up the world's goodwill and his own political capital, spent the whole bundle on dynamite, and blew the old policy to bits. However things come out in Iraq, the war's larger importance is to leave little choice, going forward, but to put America on the side of Arab reform.
I actually think that's convincing. Our earlier policy was no good. But Rauch and Glenn Reynolds both seem optimistic about Bush's spending spree; most of us at Radio Free Mike are not.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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