Instead of using this blog to bash the candidates from both sides (not that we can't do that), do you guys want to read some political books and discuss the merits of the arguments in those books? I say we could do one or two a month.
Update with suggestions for books within this post and then next week we could start reading one of them.
My first suggestion is this book
And here is my suggestion for the second book
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I could be convinced.
I never read books anymore, so it'd be quite a struggle for me. I tend to read slowly and I read too much at work. I might be willing to give it a shot, though.
I don't have much interest in your proposed defenses of the War in Iraq. I opposed the war from the start and have no doubt that the Bush Administration led us to war recklessly and by misleading the American people. I also have no doubt that the soldiers in Iraq are performing honorably and competently and making progress with the essential help of the Iraqi people. For these reasons, both of your proposals seem like sort of a waste of time.
BTW, DJ, what's it like to be a self-professed small-government Republican in foursquare support of nation-building?
I'd like to read The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi.
For a serious foreign policy book, what about Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World?
I would say we need to get beyond labels like small-government, liberal and conservative.
It's only good manners to clean up after you get rid of a dictator.
Seriously, for the same reasons I would have been for the Marshal plan. I may be small government, but I'm not heartless.
Why are my book selections not serious?
I didn't mean to imply that your selections are not serious. I meant to imply that mine aren't. I proposed Zakaria because it was clear from your selections that you were looking for a serious foreign policy book.
I used "serious" to distinguish Zakaria from the Taibbi book and to warn that the Zakaria book may not exactly be a page-turner.
My previous objection aside, your proposals seem fine.
Sorry about that. I didn't see the distinction. I'd actually like to read The Post-American World. I figured I would suggest some more conservative books knowing more liberal ones would be suggested by others.
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