New Republicans, same old militarism
Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Benjamin H. Friedman
01/24/11
As the 112th Congress gets under way, a key question remains about where tea-party influence will push the Republican caucus on foreign policy ? toward a more restrained stance on overseas commitments and Pentagon spending, or in the familiar trajectory of fiscally calamitous military adventures. Since the tea party took off last year, pundits have predicted that its anti-spending zealots would eventually target the Pentagon. Neoconservatives are clearly nervous about that prospect...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12727
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militarism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Benjamin+H.+Friedman
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by Benjamin H. Friedman
01/24/11
As the 112th Congress gets under way, a key question remains about where tea-party influence will push the Republican caucus on foreign policy ? toward a more restrained stance on overseas commitments and Pentagon spending, or in the familiar trajectory of fiscally calamitous military adventures. Since the tea party took off last year, pundits have predicted that its anti-spending zealots would eventually target the Pentagon. Neoconservatives are clearly nervous about that prospect...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12727
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militarism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Benjamin+H.+Friedman
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Starmail - 26. Jan, 10:03
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