In the cases of WWI, WWII & Korea, the tangible interests & actual or perceived security of the nation were put in jeopardy by great events & the US responded, only then giving expression to the moral & symbolic significance of the situation.
It offers no special insight on dealing with stateless powers, like Al Qaeda, that are driven less by tangible interests (which might be negotiable or self-constraining) than by a millenarian ideology.
It would change a privacy law barring the release of birth records unless the person seeking them has a tangible interest.
By Hawaiian law, birth records can be released only to people with "a direct and tangible" interest in them — a person born in the state, say, or certain relatives or their estates.
For example, Minnesota limits access to those who can show a "tangible interest," which is defined as either a close familial or financial relationship (e.g., a trustee).
The popularity of (re)nationalisation options shows that policies that put tangible mass interests ahead of those dogmas have more appeal.
While there may be the occasional limited humanitarian action (as in Libya), it will be difficult to win public support even for military endeavors linked to tangible security interests.
And of this much I'm certain: the moment our nation puts any PFC Anderson in harm's way, thousands of miles and light years from Kansas, there had better be a damn good reason for it, a vital, tangible national interest at stake.
The N.F.I.B., after all, has been known to take strong conservative positions on economic issues, even when those positions seem to conflict with its members' tangible self-interests.
A petitioner can and should argue as many relevant societal benefits of tangible national interest as can be argued persuasively.
Pursuing a tangible national interest over ideological considerations, China has been able to deepen economic ties with Russia to ease the impact of Western sanctions.
