Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has amassed a sizable war chest and positioned himself to be the safe establishment pick after Donald Trump's expected implosion. Alas, on foreign policy Bush has turned hard right.
"Our security," he recently claimed, is "in the balance." Yet the United States continues to dominate the globe as no other nation before it.
Moreover, Bush contended, "if we withdraw from the defense of liberty elsewhere, the battle of eventually comes to us anyway." Actually, the world long has been filled with horror which Washington chose not to make its own—and it did not then become America's own.
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