It’s the dead of midwinter and that means that I’m spending my days watching curling and moguls and luge and foreign policy speeches at the Munich Security Conference.
Like pretty much the entire American right, I mostly liked Marco Rubio’s speech there, certainly better than the last guy’s. But I took note of one perhaps tellingly awkward construction, the one the State Department chose to blast out on social media as the money quote: “Armies do not fight for abstractions. They fight for a people, a nation, and a way of life. That is what we are defending.”
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