Between Brussels and Jerusalem

In defining our national security too broadly, we reveal a contempt for the nation-state.

What hit me as I leafed through Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, released last month, was a familiar sense of dismay. The document was overflowing with unrelated concepts shoe-horned into the broad framework of "national security." Here's a taste:

We confront a global pandemic, a crushing economic downturn, a crisis of racial justice…