I Am All In Favour Of Democracy

Just As The Security Council Was Largely Irrelevant To The Great Struggle Of The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century - Freedom Against Communism - So Too It Is Largely On The Sidelines In Our Contemporary Struggles Against International Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

The Culture Of The State Department Is Very Negative Towards A Conservative Foreign Policy. And The Model That We All Have, Of Civil Servants As Neutral Careerists Who Carry Out The Policy Of The Elected President, Doesn't Work Nearly The Way It Should In The State Department. So That There Are Many People Who Want To Be Good Civil Servants, Who Want To Try And Carry Out These Policies, But Are Afraid To Do So. And I'm Not Even Counting The Very Small Number Of Conservatives In The State Department Who Are Genuinely At Risk.

Well, I'm A Libertarian Conservative, So I Believe In Limited Government/maximum Individual Freedom.

It Was Right To Overthrow Saddam Hussein. It Was The Regime Itself That Was A Threat. I Think In Hindsight, What I Would Have Done Is Turn Authority Back Over To Iraqis Much More Quickly And Say: "your Country, You Figure Out How To Run It."

Maybe It's My Libertarian Philosophy: But Being In Government Is Hard.