by Matt Welch

Reason

11/15/04

Republicans this November ran not just against Democrats, but the weaselly Europeans who sympathize with them. The Republican Convention was a four-day f--k-France festival; John Kerry was relentlessly (and falsely) accused of offering furriners a 'veto' over American foreign policy, and the schoolyard taunts that he even looked French made the Massachusetts Senator pathetically defensive.

Anti-multilateral politics, of course, are successful in large part because multilateral institutions and treaties are so flawed. ... But shaking off the shackles comes with a direct cost that the globe-changing Jacksonians rarely acknowledge...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp