This is why so many people try to destroy Data Republican. Quick side story related to part of her excellent article. After I retired from the Army, I went to law school full time: Georgetown Law. My 3L year, I took an International Law course. Rosa Brooks was the instructor. Yes, we covered the basics of International Law like the Caroline Affair, but the class rapidly devolved into a leftist wet dream of US interventionism based solely on the tragic "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) doctrine that keeps getting American servicemen and women killed in faraway places like Somalia. I hated it, and disagreed silently while seething in class. It wasn't a class teaching the law. It was an extended political indoctrination session being taught to seventy 24-year old gullible minds who had never held a job, and me. Grades matter in law school. Everything is graded on a curve, the whole semester comes down to one final exam, and if you don't get good grades you don't get a good lawyer job and end up getting paid pennies in some public sector job while sitting on $300k of student loan debt. So in the final exam, I wrote answers I knew Rosa Brooks wanted to hear. I got an award for the highest grade in the class. Some may say I should have written how screwed up she was as a form of protest. I think mine was a better form of protest. Rosa Brooks is an archetype: the government lawyer who knows what is best for you, doesn't care about the will of the electorate, and sees men and women in uniform as objects to be manipulated to advance their worldview of tyrannical, society-destroying Cosmopolitism. These are the people who believe they should rule you.