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Intervene Only When It’s In “Our National Interest”?

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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
– William Hazlitt, The Ignorance of the Learned [1821]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
July 21, 2023
Intervene Only When It’s In “Our National Interest”?
One of the popular mantras for some conservatives and some libertarians when it comes to foreign interventionism is the following: “We should never intervene abroad except when it is in ‘our national interest.’” There is one great big problem, however, with that qualifier: It serves as no limitation whatsoever with respect to foreign interventionism. Why is that?  Because the people who are …
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