McCain's Downfall: Republican Foreign Policy

Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria | Nov. 10, 2008 (Opinion)

Ideas matter, Richard Weaver once wrote, and the Republican Party has
become a party bereft of ideas or trapped by the wrong ones. The
Reagan-Thatcher revolution of low taxes, deregulation and tight money seems
irrelevant to the problems of underregulated financial products, huge
deficits and a deepening recession. The Republican Party's social program
is out of tune with an increasingly young, diverse and tolerant electorate.
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Subjects: Politics, U.S.
Topics: Republican Party, John McCain, War in Iraq, Foreign Policy, Bush Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 10, 2008 - 10:57 AM PST
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 by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 10, 2008

Zakaria portrays McCain's defeat as not just a rejection of the candidate but a repudiation of a generation of Republican unilateralism, militarism and deregulation. This is a line of argument I've seen in other op-eds and analyses, but not framed in the global perspective like this one. Well supported and not excessively critical or partisan -- tastefully done.

As the conservative writer David Frum points out, “College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with the Democrats — but that their ... More »

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 by James Staley - Nov. 11, 2008

This is another high-quality op-ed from Mr. Zakaria, he of the high-quality mind. He succinctly and accurately describes Republicans' failed foreign policy and sketches an emerging new world in which Obama should plant his centrist government.

The Republicans will fight their civil war, in large part, over the question: What is the political center of the ever-evolving United States and do ... More »

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