Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Kentucky
Sen. Rand Paul, both GOP presidential aspirants, recently had what
one might call a frank exchange of views on foreign policy. After
Paul wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal opposing
further intervention in Iraq, Perry suggested Paul is (paraphrasing
here) a hopeless naïf whose fraidy-cat isolationism presents a
standing invitation for terrorists to bomb America into rubble.
Paul replied that Perry is a shoot-first maniac who would send
American sons and daughters to their deaths because he refuses to
learn from the past. “Any future military action by the United
States,” Paul wrote, “must always be based on an assessment of what
has worked and what hasn’t.”
That would be a good start. But only a start, writes A. Barton
Hinkle. Perry’s and Paul’s concern over what works and what doesn’t
ignores an equally important consideration: what’s right and what’s
wrong.
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