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Brooks, who is a senior editor of The Weekly Standard and a frequent contributor to Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, called Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a “genocidal maniac” and defended the Bush administration before a crowd of 50 students and faculty.
“We should listen to the criticism, but it shouldn’t necessarily paralyze us. We can’t be the Sally Field of nations—you know, ‘you like me, you really like me,’” Brooks...
Brooks said claims that the U.S. is an unwelcome intruder in Iraq shouldn’t deter the army’s efforts to end Saddam’s regime.
“We’re not going to sit back while people commit genocide,” Brooks said. “The rules of national sovereignty don’t seem as important as those people getting killed.”
Asked to speculate about the 2004 presidential election, Brooks said he believes the war itself will not be a major issue, but the debate over foreign policy in general could be crucial—and could give a key advantage to Republicans, who have a more unified foreign policy agenda...