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No Longer the 'Party of Eisenhower and Reagan'

Crabtownboy

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Just some of the reasons I finally had to leave the Republican Party.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party's thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

The Fletcher School's Dan Drezner kicked off the latest round of foreign policy renewalism with a thoughtful Foreign Affairs essay. In it he asks, "how did the party of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan get itself into this mess?" The short answer:

GOP leaders stopped being smart foxes and devolved into stupid hedgehogs. During the Cold War, the party of Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Reagan was strongly anticommunist, but these presidents took foreign policy seriously and executed their grand strategies with a healthy degree of tactical flexibility. Since 9/11, however, Republicans have known only one big thing -- the "global war on terror" -- and have remained stubbornly committed to a narrow militarized approach.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/no-longer-the-party-of-eisenhower-and-reagan/267092/#
 
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InTheLight

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I'm not seeing your point. Seems to me since the fall of the U.S.S.R. Republicans have merely substituted "terrorism" for "communist." Nixon and Reagan were plenty fixated on communism, just as Bush was on terrorism.

The Republicans bungling of economic issues over the past couple of years has got me ready to vote for a different party. Too bad there are no viable alternatives.
 

kyredneck

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Chuck Hagel Accusers Who Allege Anti-Semitism Getting Pushback
by Peter Beinart Jan 14, 2013 4:45 AM EST

"Critics from Elliott Abrams to The Wall Street Journal have been attacking Obama’s defense secretary nominee as ‘anti-Jewish’ or ‘anti-Israel,’ but are sounding a retreat after being hammered by the likes of Thomas Friedman and Richard Haass.

From the beginning, Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense has been about more than just the policies he’d pursue at the Pentagon. It’s been about the terms of legitimate discourse in Washington, D.C. And in this regard, even though he’s yet to be confirmed, Hagel is already proving an agent of change.

He’s proving an agent of change because over the past week or so, for the first time I can remember, the Jewish right’s tactic of calling people they disagree with on Israel policy anti-Semitic has begun to backfire."

GLORY HALLELJAH! FREE SPEECH RETURNS TO CONGRESS!!!
 
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