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Joseph Lieberman‚ 1942-2024
Joe Lieberman‚ who died Wednesday at age 82‚ was the kind of Democrat who can’t be found much these days‚ and there aren’t many like him in the Republican Party either. He was a foreign policy hawk who believed in the necessity of American military power and diplomacy to expand the zone of freedom in the world.
Lieberman rose in Connecticut politics as a moderate Democrat in a more moderate age. We first met him in 1988 when he ran for the Senate against the liberal Republican incumbent...