Lindsey Graham was an American patriot. His first priority was always to protect the United States, and his first instinct in this regard was to promote freedom as the kryptonite that would unravel tyranny and erode anti-Americanism.

Over the last quarter century, this instinct occasionally led me to disagree with him: I believe sharia supremacism is the antithesis of Western liberalism and thus that a freedom agenda can be counterproductive — i.e., Islamists use the procedural attendants of liberty,........

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