Douthat is spot on here. There is a real danger and one should not deny its existence, but it is "not a singular danger that should organize all other political choices and suspend all other disagreements. nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opi…
Douthat grants Kagan that was merely mistaken in good faith about the existential threat requiring war posed by Iraq. But plenty of evidence that the war was meant to introduce a new form of militarized foreign policy and claims of existential danger were a pretext.
The sudden coalescence of various arms of partisan media around an ostensibly existential danger suggests that we are seeing the manufacture of a pretext menat to "organize all other political choices and suspend all other disagreements."
It's really the key tell
https://twitter.com/Rationalist69/status/1445423289166409734?s=20
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