<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Actually, when I rambled in the Krugman thread I had the latest GOP candidates' debate in mind. I heard something more than the rote "leadership" and "strength" and "boots on the ground will work better this time" that Milbank observes... more than the bipartisan "indispensable nation, something must be done and this is something so we must do it."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I heard a just-barely-subterranean thread of welcoming more Parises and Benghazis -- or at least "see, we were right"... of wanting Daesh, Iran et al to be as bad as they can be, of *wanting* Manichaean, apocalyptic confrontations. Maybe some of it is an attenuated version of the bring-on-Armageddon stance of some End Timers among their base. Â </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Paul Mackin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mackin.paul@gmail.com" target="_blank">mackin.paul@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dana-milbank" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dana-milbank</a><br>
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