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‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Redux

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‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Redux The Iran War is bringing back some of the lowest forms of intellectual dishonesty. At the beginning of the Iraq War, David Frum published an article in National Review entitled “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” attacking those on the right opposed to the war—including the founders of this magazine, Patrick J. Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and Taki Theodoracopulos. Almost ...
The article offers a critical examination of the rhetoric used by contemporary conservative figures against anti-war conservatives. It highlights how Frum's argument from the Iraq War era is being revived by Shapiro in the context of potential war with Iran, using similar tactics of personal attacks and accusations of disloyalty. The author argues that this approach undermines serious debate and ignores the historical tradition of geopolitical noninterventionism within conservatism. By framing o...