This week, I had a piece in the National Interest examining the question of Hillary Clinton’s views on national security. Specifically, is she as hawkish as her critics often allege? The answer, I find, is complicated, and tells us quite a bit about the state of the foreign policy discussion occurring on the American left today.
An excerpt:
Now, though, with the Bush years in the rearview mirror, Democrats are finding that they need to explain what they stand for. And many are encountering a tension between the antiwar impulses of their base and the more centrist national security philosophy that they have espoused all along, one that allows for the use of force in a way that much of the public is no longer comfortable with.
Read the full piece, here.
