The case for collective force

Matt Yglesias is sharply skewing the facts in his Op-Ed " Beyond preemption," when he tries to link Hillary Clinton's purported willingness to bomb Iran, for which there is no evidence, to a piece that Lee Feinstein and I co-authored for Foreign Affairs in 2004. That piece was entitled "A Duty to Prevent." In it we did indeed write, as Yglesias quotes, that "the biggest problem with the Bush preemption strategy may be that it does not go far enough." But Yglesias employs the journalistically unprofessional tactic of quoting only part of a sentence. The full context for that quote is the following passage:

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

December 12, 2007