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Better late than never?

Posted by Patrick

The National Journal's daily roundup reported Friday on the formation of a new group of academics called Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, which is speaking out against the neocon agenda of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

It's significant because it includes thinkers on the left and the right. Christopher Preble, the director of Foreign Policy Studies at the libertarian Cato Institute (which has opposed the war all along, I believe), says the coalition opposes an American empire and advocates

an alternative vision for American national security strategy consistent with American traditions and values. ... [It is] a formal response to the prominent think tanks and publications openly advocating an activist American foreign policy in which the U.S. would use its predominate military and economic power to promote change abroad.

An impressive show of intellectual strength. To bad they waited til it was too late.

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