Apologies to the fiercely Marx-minded readers of The Spectator Australia, but: a spectre is haunting the West, the spectre of interventionism.
One may recall Irving Kristol’s famous remark that neoconservatives were “liberals who’d been mugged by reality”. Over the past thirteen years, neoconservatives have themselves, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, been mugged by reality.
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Joseph Power is a freelance writer and member of the Executive Council at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Queensland. Views are his own.
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