On JD Vance, Restraint, and Reflexive Anti-Interventionism

A conservative American foreign policy is not one based on illusions or reflexive hostility to the use of power.

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Vice President JD Vance addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., February 20, 2025.

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In the grand tradition of internal National Review debates in our own pages, a few replies are due to Michael Brendan Dougherty for his response to my horseshoe coalition column on the alliance of progressives and the anti-interventionist “restrainer” right against American action on the Iranian nuclear program.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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