Republican Hawks Squawk at Each Other
8th March 2022
Cockburn has never been much of a hawk, unless you count his begrudging deficit hawkery over the massive tab he ran up at his local bar. But many elected Republicans are very hawkish on foreign policy, supporting “peace through strength,” as Ronald Reagan put it, as well as occasionally war through strength.
So how are the GOP’s highest-flying hawks handling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Cockburn was surprised to find them divided.