The Giuliani Doctrine

Matthew Yglesias destroys Rudy's recent essay in Foreign Affairs. It's worth reading the whole post, but here's the upshot:

The result of this policy is going to be an endless series of wars, a bankrupt country accounting for way more than fifty percent of world defense expenditures, fewer and fewer countries willing to cooperate with us on key priorities and, perhaps worst of all, more and more nuclear proliferation as countries decide its not safe to live in a world where the Rudy-led USA is the big kid on the block.

I don't think he's over-stating the case. After all, Giuliani's chief foreign policy advisor is Norman Podhoretz -- who is already on record as saying that the Iraq War "couldn't have gone better," and who wants to unilaterally bomb Iran -- and Giuliani has been the most hawkish of the the GOP candidates in the debates.

Giuliani must be opposed. At all costs.