Something very odd is going on in Washington. I recently attended and spoke at a conference in Washington on "realism and restraint" as a broad formula to reform U.S. foreign policy. Most presentations reflected that agenda more-or-less but oddly one of the speakers said that it was necessary for the United States to mark its place in the world while "carrying a big stick" while another panelist asserted that it was a core mission of the American people to "help other countries striving to be free." Both were referring to how the U.S. should comport itself vis-à-vis Russia and one had to suspect that they had wandered into the auditorium by mistake, intending instead to visit the nearby American Enterprise Institute.
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