Calculation Has Its Advantages, But

Comedians Still Make Fun Of Bill's Out-of-control Appetites, But With Hillary, The Mockery Is About How She Lets Nothing Be Out Of Control.

Peter Beinart Excoriates The Doughface Liberals Who During The Cold War Put Anti-imperialism Before Anti-totalitarianism And Demanded Total Moral Purity On The Part Of The United States, Thus Opposing Any Action In The Real World To Resist Soviet Expansionism. If The Democrats Were, As He Advocates, To Return To The Trumanesque Anti-totalitarian Liberalism That Held Sway In The Party From Roughly 1947 To 1972, The Party And The Country Would Be Better Off.

There Is Simply No Substitute For Forceful American Leadership. Sometimes The Best Way To Get Allies Is To Be Willing To Forge Ahead Alone.

We Believe In The Power Of 21st-century International Norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin Believes In The Power Of Lies And Brute Force, And Implicitly Asks, In The Spirit Of Josef Stalin, 'how Many Divisions Do International Norms Have?'

It's Worth Remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama Also Came In Thinking They Had The Magic Key To Better, Warmer Relations With Russia; Those Efforts Ended In Tears.