I made a remark recently on the blog that in reading William Kristol and Robert Kagan’s essay “Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy” I had forgotten that their main point seemed to be that Americans needed war to realize who they were as a nation. Okay, Teddy Roosevelt said that too–I don’t think Reagan made that argument, but that was beside the point to the two K’s. I have also been looking at the 2000 presidential and vice-presidential debates and was stuck that basically the only point that Bush-Cheney went after Gore on was Clinton’s relationship to the military. Cheney took Read more