Back to the Future on Foreign Policy
Is there an endgame for the global war on terror?
.. The United States claims the right to fly into any nation’s airspace and kill anyone it wishes. Add it all together and when it comes to that war on terror across significant parts of the globe, the once-reluctant heir to the Bush legacy leaves behind a 21st-century mechanism for perpetual war and eternal assassination missions. And no candidate in either party is willing to even suggest that such a situation needs to end.
.. Four years later, whack-a-mole seems to still be as polite a way as possible of categorizing America’s strategy.
.. Do today’s foreign policy challenges mean that it’s time to retire the Constitution?
.. no candidate has said: “Let’s spend less than 54% of our discretionary budget on defense.”