What is it?

Seriously, I was reading this post by Matt Yglesias offering the usual, if not entirely unfair, jabs at conservatives over foreign policy stuff. And it struck me, I really have no idea what liberals believe when it comes to foreign policy. Sure, I know about the more famous sentiments about multilateralism, the UN, etc., but I really have no idea what liberal foreign policy is. Criticizing, mocking and pointing out inconsistencies within conservative or “neoconservative” foreign policy is not an actual foreign policy itself. Indeed, the relentless and relentlessly tiresome charges of “hypocrisy” aimed at conservatives are in some way tributes to conservative foreign policy. You cannot be a hypocrite or inconsistent unless you have a principle in the first place to apply hypocritically or inconsistently.

Amidst all of their handwringing about what Democrats should be and do in the coming years, I really haven’t heard much about foreign policy. You guys might want to get on that.