Building Support

AS conservatives confront the responsibilities of governing, a key question will be how to reassert America’s leadership in the world. The Contract with America acknowledges the importance of re-establishing a strong national defense by calling for restoration of “the essential parts of our national-security funding.”

But protecting American national security involves more than building up our armed forces, however important that is following a period of imprudent retrenchment. We must also come to grips with the continued existence of corrupt and tyrannical regimes that place the United States economic and security interests at risk even as they deny fundamental freedoms to their own people.

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AS conservatives confront the responsibilities of governing, a key question will be how to reassert America’s leadership in the world. The Contract with America acknowledges the importance of re-establishing a strong national defense by calling for restoration of “the essential parts of our national-security funding.”

But protecting American national security involves more than building up our armed forces, however important that is following a period of imprudent retrenchment. We must also come to grips with the continued existence of corrupt and tyrannical regimes that place the United States economic and security interests at risk even as they deny fundamental freedoms to their own people.