The corrosive idea that only corruption and perfidy could account for differences of opinion on the power dynamics of international order and America’s role therein is about what you’d expect from the hug it out candidate.https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1148574113516130304 …
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I’m suggesting power hates a vacuum and that our retreat from the “brute force” that underwrites our other “options” would be quickly filled (and used) by other (and less liberal) actors.
I’m not a pacifist. Not suggesting US doesn’t have to have strong military presence in the world. But that’s different than basing national security agenda more on profits for defense contractors than on genuine peace building. We must wage peace as well as be prepared for war.
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And which of your primary opponents do that - base a “national security agenda more on profits for defense contractors than on genuine peace building”? Because that accusation goes directly to my original tweet. Which you said didn’t reflect your position.
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I didn’t say anything at all about my opponents, tho I said that only one other specifically mentions US military policy as an issue we should be discussing. And that that shouldn’t get one labeled something like the “hug it out” candidate. That such diminishment is undeserved.
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