Jim Talent writes: The whole rationale of America’s post-war policy, including the various alliances, is to make a minimal ongoing sacrifice over time to vastly reduce the risk of the periodic cataclysms that engulfed the world in the first half of the last century. The risk of such a cataclysm is now growing, not just in Europe, but in the Middle East and Asia – National Review Online’s The Corner
Charles Lane writes: Like those of free trade, collective security’s benefits are diffuse and intangible (the absence, or limitation, of war) while its costs (dollars or, yes, lives) are concentrated and concrete. Populist backlash, accordingly, was always a latent vulnerability. Now the genie is out of the bottle. – Washington Post
Charles Lane writes: Like those of free trade, collective security’s benefits are diffuse and intangible (the absence, or limitation, of war) while its costs (dollars or, yes, lives) are concentrated and concrete. Populist backlash, accordingly, was always a latent vulnerability. Now the genie is out of the bottle. – Washington Post
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