The eloquent conservative Larison lost his temper a week ago at Sarah Palin’s "Bridge to Nowhere" lie.
Now he’s just pissed:
The main innovation of the Bush administration in U.S. foreign
policy, the one for which he will be remembered for good or ill, is the
placement of preventive war as a means of nonproliferation and
antiterrorism at the center of national security strategy. Related to
this is the abandonment of traditional concepts of deterrence and
containment. Democracy promotion as stated U.S. policy dates back at
least to the Carter administration, and the “freedom agenda” has
rhetorical precedents as far back as Kennedy’s Inaugural. What Bush
did with democracy promotion that was distinctive was to marry this
terrible idea to his existing terrible idea of waging preventive war
against “rogue” states. The “freedom agenda” did not replace and
eliminate the earlier iteration of the Bush Doctrine, but formalized
the administration’s mad ideological fixation on democratization as an
addition to that Doctrine.
Kit Stolz 