I could be wrong, but I don't think you'll find many Americans, even on the radical left, who would deny the United States a reasonable conventional and nuclear second-strike capability, or even the right to prevent the emergence of a hostile hegemonic power (though the latter would seem to me to involve skillful diplomacy more than military action.)
But I'm curious as to what sort of foreign intervention strategy Mr. Lind would advocate.  Specifically, is he in favor of using US military power for human rights purposes in extreme situations?  In 1994 Rwanda or present day Darfur, to name two examples?
I know Lind opposed the Iraq invasion, but then again, so did Pat Buchanan.  I certainly hope he's not advocating some sort of Pat Buchananite America firstism when it comes to foreign policy.
Even worse, I hope he's not suggesting the Democrats try their hand at Kissingerian realpolitik and return to the sort of thuggery that characterized a lot of American Cold War foreign policy, because there's a long distance between defending Western Europe from the Warsaw Pact and supporting Suharto, Somoza, and every other thug who cloaked himself in anti-communism.  Because while I'm all for trying to prevent the emergence of, say, China as a hostile hegemonic power, I fear Mr. Lind is suggesting that Democrats suck it up and accept doing things like trying to overthrow the Venezualan government for signing oil deals with the PRC.  I sincerely hope he's not advocating going down this road. 

Posted at August 5, 2005 12:51 PM in response to A Democratic National Security Strategy

I'm sorry, but can you read?  You babble about "the corporate teat," when Lind is talking about moving LEFT on economic issues. Funny how all of the people accusing him of DLCism ignore that. 

Posted at August 5, 2005 7:11 AM in response to the only way that democrats can regain a majority

Restating what you believe and using lots of Caps isn't exactly ending a discussion.  If you think Lind's reasoning is flawed, then tell us why.  This, like so much of this thread, is just petulant foot-stomping and does nothing to build a Democratic majority.

Posted at August 4, 2005 7:10 PM in response to the only way that democrats can regain a majority

You could make the case that Dalton Trumbo's screenplay for Spartacus is fairly commie-friendly and contains some coded swipes at American hegemony, but it's a stretch.
I'm far more alarmed by the apparent fact that if the IMDB bio of the NRO writer is correct, then it takes twelve writers to produce According To Jim.

Posted at July 16, 2005 5:44 PM in response to Conservative Epistemology