Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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really.
And in that respect, some of them were successful.
Kosovo was a successful conflict.
You know, it really did save thousands of lives.
You know, even Somalia, if you remember the Somalia conflict in the early 1990s, you know,
That saved hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia.
So I just think we've been, I don't know, shaped too much by sort of a Quincy Institute view of the world.
You know, we're not going to use power unerringly, but we really do have to be willing to use power or we get the world that unfortunately we're now about to get.
It's too late to recreate the post-World War II world.
It's too late to recreate that world.
But it's not too late for the United States to come back and be a positive influence on world affairs and also look after its own security.
And that's where we're going to have to go.
I mean, my problem with the Democratic Party is that
You know, when people say, well, we got to get Trump out and then we'll get the Democrats in and we'll get back to normal again.
And I just want to remind people, this is not the party of Dean Atchison, this Democratic Party.
I mean, if you want to say, how did we get to where we are today, where Americans seem perfectly willing to elect a president who's going to withdraw from the world practically entirely?
The Democrats, especially on the left, played a huge role in setting us up for that.
They're the ones who said that American leadership was a bad thing, that American power was bad.
They really undercut a lot of the moral justification for our behavior.
And then the right swooped in and took the citadel.
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