I was recently chatting with some MSM types over why columnists seemed incapable of responding to one another by name, even when it was clear that their piece was an explicit rebuttal to something a colleague had published a few days prior. Happily, Time seems to place no similar constraints on its writers. In an article laying out his vision for what the next president's agenda should include, Joe Klein writes:
In March 2001, in this magazine, Charles Krauthammer baldly stated what would become the foreign policy of the brand-new Bush Administration: "America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will."
This was a profoundly radical vision, a conscious effort to use the U.S. military as the primary instrument of foreign policy, a garbled, brutish update of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" aggressiveness.
As for the ideas, here are the ones that caught my eye. On foreign policy:
