Memo
Published March 27, 2006
Updated March 27, 2006
Tough and Smart: A Winning National Security Strategy
By:
SUMMARY
An eight-point strategy for progressive candidates on handling national security issues.
This memo details how progressives should challenge the public’s long-standing doubts about our ability to protect the nation and how they should take advantage of the public’s emerging concerns about the Bush national security policy. In short, it recommends a national security policy that is tough enough to defeat our enemies and smart enough to get the job done right.
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