Avoiding the Toughness Trap by Bill Hartung
Posted in Giuliani (R), McCain (R), Romney (R), Thompson (R) on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
There is a surreal quality to many of the foreign policy arguments being put forward in the 2008 presidential campaign, particularly among Republican presidential hopefuls. The Bush Administration’s fiasco in Iraq is a transformative event that calls for a fundamental re-thinking of US security strategy. The policies of “preventive” war, forward basing of US troops [...]
