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Okay, everyone on my timeline is dumping on this tweet and I have 15 minutes to kill so what the hell I’ll try to defend it. 1/
Everyone is exercised by Kristol’s tweet because he will forever be associated with the notion of forcible regime change in Iraq. That... did not go well. Trying something similar in China would be a catastrophic move. 2/
But that’s not what Kristol said in his tweet. He just said “regime change.” And believe it or not, back in the day the United States used to occasionally use peaceful methods like fostering civil society as a means to foment regime change. 3/
