I’ve just published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway:
Mitt Romney Is Not Convincing Me
Mitt Romney outlines his plan for dealing with Iran in an op-ed in the Washington Post. I’m not sure whether he’s trying to distinguish himself from the president or reassure me that he’ll continue his policies. Either way it’s not working.
Yep. For all the talk about how wide the gap between the parties has become, in some ways the consistency is just remarkable.
Not only remarkable but depressing. What’s a non-interventionist to do? The choice is between a liberal interventionist and a neoconservative interventionist. As the situation in Libya should have reaffirmed for us, both groups have the attention spans of fruit flies.
Well, us non-interventionists haven’t had a choice for well over a generation now. The brand was already in tatters before McGovern & Carter, and they utterly killed it.
That’s why, even though I would never vote for him, I take a certain heart in the Paul campaign. He’s a crackpot but it seems to me the growth in his support has been driven by the non-interventionist vote. Unfortunately I think he’s more interested in passing that support on to his son than to a sane candidate like Gary Johnson. Two steps forward, two steps back…
America has never been non-interventionist. It’s just doing what it has always done. Those of us who oppose such policies are the odd-ones out.