Buckley’s Realist Foreign Policy

The knives are out for conservatives who dare question unlimited involvement in foreign wars.Foreign policy, the interventionist critics claim, has no place for nuance or realism. You are either for us or against us. No middle ground is acceptable. The Wilsonian ideologues must have democracy worldwide now and damn all obstacles to that utopia. I say sharpen your knives, because the battle once begun will not end easily.Conservatives who want to read libertarian conservatives out of the movement should reread some old copies of National Review first.From Frank Meyer to William F. Buckley Jr. to George Will -- indeed, to
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