This Is Realism?

If we really had been in the grip of "idealism," we'd be deep in Chad and Burma and Darfur. We are not. We are instead trying to sustain fragile democracies in three strategically important countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon -- that form the geographic parentheses around the principal threat to Western interests in the region, the Syria-Iran axis. Full Story »

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Mike LaBonte
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by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 1, 2008

Lots of claims and opinion, but almost no evidence and sources. For example, the word "said" does not appear once. The proposal to abandon the Green Zone is interesting.

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