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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Matt Yglesias makes a good point:

• In domestic politicy, right and left tend to have basically different goals. The left is trying to construct a well-designed social welfare system and the right is trying to keep the government as small as possible. Foreign policy goals, however, are fairly uncontroversial, at least in a general sense. None of us want to see nice democratic countries overrun or innocents slaughtered in terrorist attacks and we would all like to see other nations become freer, more democratic, more prosperous, and so forth. But it's not totally clear how you get from here to there.
  
  The tendency, though, is to blow up every policy dispute into some massive gap of principle. "You looked at the Iraq War and decided it was a bad idea -- well, you must hate freedom!" Well, no, I don't.