Alex Massie Alex Massie

Let’s re-engage with John Edwards foreign policy vision

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, JOY THROUGH WAR

Apparently policing the world really is like cleaning up Gotham:

“In this decade, for the first time in human history, half of the world’s population will live in cities. I know from personal experience that when security is reliably established in a troubled part of a city, normal life rapidly reestablishes itself: shops open, people move back in, children start playing ball on the sidewalks again, and soon a decent and law-abiding community returns to life.

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