George W. Bush Won This Debate

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Peter Beinart on how the 2012 foreign policy presidential debate looked at the world through the same militaristic prism George W. Bush did.

Published Oct. 23 2012 1:15AM EDT

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Barack Obama didn’t win tonight’s foreign policy debate. Neither did Mitt Romney. George W. Bush did.Bush won it because the framework for understanding the world that he put in place after Sept.

Peter Beinart

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George W. Bush Won This Debate

Peter Beinart on how the 2012 foreign policy presidential debate looked at the world through the same militaristic prism George W. Bush did.

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Peter Beinart