Why every major 2016 candidate will embrace America's perpetual war machine

U.S. voters briefly flirted with receding from the global stage after the disasters of the Bush years. That didn't last long.

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Damon Linker
Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.

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