Tim Pawlenty, Wilsonian

Published June 28, 2011 4:00am ET



Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is staking out the most Wilsonian, interventionist, hawkish position on foreign policy. Here’s a choice excerpt, quoted by Jon Ward at the Huffington Post:

“America already has one political party devoted to decline, retrenchment, and withdrawal,” he added. “It does not need a second one.”

Seriously? The Democratic Party, a majority of whose senators voted to preemptively invade Iraq, is “devoted to … retrenchment”? The Democratic Party, whose president sent us unblinkingly to manage a civil war in Libya, is devoted to withdrawal?

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