Without a broad, sustaining foreign policy vision, the American people will be inclined to withdraw from the world and will lose sight of their abiding interest in vigorous world leadership. Without a sense of mission, they will seek deeper and deeper cuts in the defense and foreign affairs budgets and gradually decimate the tools of U.S. hegemony. Not only should America s leaders threaten countries that pose no threat to us, they must lie to the American people who might otherwise take the perfectly sensible view that they do not want to pick fights with everyone under the sun. Kristol s ideas are truly dangerous. Combined with his ambition and dissimulation, it makes him one of the most pernicious figures to have emerged on the American scene for a long time.
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