A Brief Comment on Last Night’s Debate |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 11:08 pm |
| Tags: debates, war in iraq, where sam stands |
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Ross Douthat noted something last night that I have long been trying to drive home about the Republican debates: that Senator Brownback is the only Republican in the field offering actual alternatives to the current Iraq policy. While other candidates try to score cheap points off of Ron Paul (Ron Paul is the best fundraiser Rudy Giuliani ever had), and talking in platitudes, Brownback is laying out an actual way forward in Iraq that differs from the current administration’s policy. Douthat is non-committal about the strategy itself, but appreciates the fact that Brownback was willing to actually engage the issue: [W]hat Brownback did, in his non-response to Paul, was offer an actual strategy for moving forward politically in Iraq, addressing the central problem of our occupation head-on in a way that almost nobody else did during tonight’s debate. His plan for partition may be a terrible plan (or at best, a plausible endpoint of a “stay till it burns out” [ Full article ] |
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