I remember spending a fair portion of the 2000s, during the presidency of George W. Bush, fighting the casual anti-Americanism that existed in Europe at the time. I used to explain to my friends on the old continent that Republicans were not the dumb party. Their commitment to a hawkish foreign policy, including two controversial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was not a hallmark of ignorance, but a sign of prescient internationalism, founded on the notion that a peaceful world order cannot survive without leadership by the world’s largest and most prosperous liberal democracy – the United States.
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Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
