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Once more unto the breach with George Packer

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Once more unto the breach with George Packer

Or, liberal interventionism hits a wall

Jonathan M. Katz
Dec 16, 2022
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Once more unto the breach with George Packer

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George Packer is the consummate liberal hawk. The former New Yorker staff writer, now employed by the Atlantic, supported the U.S. invasions and bombings of Haiti, Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan, and most unforgettably Iraq — always, crucially, on “humanitarian” grounds. Packer’s signature move is the agonized hand-wring (in 2013, he debated himself on whe…

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