Norman Podhoretz has written a must read article which explains the panic in the Democratic party and the champagne—swilling international set, as it is clear the Bush doctrine is reshaping the Middle East and is winning. Every word of it is worth reading. Not the least of which are these which beyond peradventure of doubt  expose the nonsensically unrealistic thesis at the heart of the failed "realist"  and internationalist positions: Brzezinski's worldview is a syncretistic mix of foreign—policy realism (with its emphasis on stability and the sanctity of national borders) and liberal internationalism (with its unshakable faith in compromise, consensus, and international institutions). In this he differs somewhat from another former National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, a Republican who occupied the office under George W. Bush's father and whose own commitment to the realist perspective is pure and unadulterated. In spite of this difference, the two...(Read Full Post)