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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: bentway who wrote (188788)6/8/2006 9:37:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The former president, a practitioner of foreign policy realism, was intruding on the president's parallel reality. But the realist was trying to shake the fantasist in vain

Yup, anytime I want dispassionate, objective journalism, Sidney Blumenthal is the first person I think of. Not hardly.

The neocons and the realists view the world through different frameworks, that much is true. Which is truer will be left for the historians to sort out. For now, it seems useful to remind everybody that the linchpin of the vaunted realist approach to the Middle East was the Saudi alliance, whom we counted on to manage things for us, in return for plenty of oil money and no hard questions about how they ran things.

After a certain day nearly five years ago, the wisdom of this policy came into question.
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