In Defense of a Foreign-Policy ‘Third Way’

Washington’s foreign-policy elites are wrong . . . again

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Ukrainian servicemen attend a joint drills of armed forces, national guard, and border guard at the border with Belarus in Chernihiv Region, Ukraine, September 30, 2022.

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It would be hard to craft a series of words less connotative of competence and authority than “the long-standing internationalist bipartisan D.C. foreign-policy consensus.”

Since the end of the Cold War, the servants of that elite consensus have lost two wars, overseen some of the worst intelligence failures in American history, hollowed out our middle class to finance China’s global anti-American ambitions, erased our southern border, abandoned Americans in Benghazi and Afghanistan, and today seem more focused on the troops’ pronoun sensitivity than on their war-fighting capacity.

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Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation.

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