From FPRI and The CATO Institute:
Foreign Policy/International Affairs
Sovereignty – The Ultimate States’ Rights Argument
by Anna Simons
Foreign Policy Research Institute
August 08, 2011
For ten years and counting, U.S. policy has rested on the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to separate “moderates” from “radicals,’’ or reconcilables from irreconcilables. Washington’s policy has been that if those espousing and participating in unjustifiable violence can be isolated, moderates should be wooable, and once they’ve been won over the irreconcilables can be eliminated. To accomplish this, the US only needs to persuade moderates to stop lending extremists support. The US should no more tolerate those who protect or surreptitiously support perpetrators of anti-American violence than citizens should tolerate leaders who govern so ineffectively they permit safe havens to exist.
Foreign Policy/International Affairs
Sovereignty – The Ultimate States’ Rights Argument
by Anna Simons
Foreign Policy Research Institute
August 08, 2011
For ten years and counting, U.S. policy has rested on the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to separate “moderates” from “radicals,’’ or reconcilables from irreconcilables. Washington’s policy has been that if those espousing and participating in unjustifiable violence can be isolated, moderates should be wooable, and once they’ve been won over the irreconcilables can be eliminated. To accomplish this, the US only needs to persuade moderates to stop lending extremists support. The US should no more tolerate those who protect or surreptitiously support perpetrators of anti-American violence than citizens should tolerate leaders who govern so ineffectively they permit safe havens to exist.
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