Analogies are always inexact, but from no corner of history is there one that would give us cause for optimism about the West’s trend toward disarmament since 1991. There doesn’t have to be a Nazi Germany on the horizon, or even a Soviet Union, for this trend to be dangerous. The logical vulnerability in comparing everything to the 1930s is not that there is no Nazi Germany today; it’s that too many people harbor the illusion that danger only comes in that form.
Danger’s more common forms usually start – deceptively – with political intimidation, typically in neglected and hard-to-defend spots. In such spots even a weaker nation can generate a relative imbalance of force. Read More…
I love Peggy Noonan to death. No, really. She’s long been a favorite columnist of mine, and a delightful chronicler of Reagan and his years in office. Bless her heart.
Alert readers probably sense a “but” coming here.
Tuned in to the conservative zeitgeist in 2009, she’s not. Read More…
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