LIMBAUGH COMMENTARY: CLINTON INTERNATIONALISM BANKS ON CONVENIENT HUMANITARISM

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Sunday, May 16, 1999

The Clinton internationalists -- those who believe the United States has a right or even a duty to stick its imperial nose into every conflict it wishes around the globe -- reject the time-honored principle that, as to foreign-policy decisions, this nation ought to be guided by its strategic national interests. They argue that because we are the world's lone superpower, we have a moral duty to intervene as the world's policeman every time we determine, in our sole discretion, that such intervention is justified. Might makes right!

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