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Fri May 03 13:28:44 +0000 2019

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DavidKlion This is so obviously correct and, in a certain sense, liberating. It means that candidates should feel free to pick the best foreign policies almost irrespective of how they poll or whether they're popular in Washington. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 3, 2019 Hibernated

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@dmarusic @FareedZakaria First, I don't buy the realist idea that "most" foreign policy historically is *narrowly* self-interested. Second, those historical foreign policy thinkers who have valorized self-interest have a tendency to justify chauvinistic and even brutal policies. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 3, 2019 Hibernated

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@DavidKlion @AndrewMLeber Right, obviously I've truncated for Twitter. Foreign policy matters when it inflicts an immediate and obvious cost on the electorate (large wars), but other than that leaders are free to pursue a vision of the "best" policy defined as what they see as best substantively — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 3, 2019 Hibernated

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