Toughness At The Margins

Poulos fisks Robert Kagan:

It is my firm conviction that neither the world is a problem nor is possessed of a great, unitary problem neither one that must be solved, nor not one that could be. Solid too is my insistence that, whatever America’s responsibilities abroad, there is no ‘full measure of devotion’ that Americans somehow owe humanity and/or our own consciences. When I hear talk of fullness and comprehensiveness and the contemptibility of half measures and skepticism about driving policy by tests of emotional completeness, I run for the door.