If Power Shifts In 2008

The Washington Post ^ | Sunday, May 28, 2006 | Robert Kagan

[Rome2000]

This idiot gets paid to write nonsense like this.

[SandRat]

Robert Kagan! Yes you!

Put down the Peyote Beans and walk slowly towards the nice men in the white coats with the big butter-fly nets. They'll take you to a nice restful place.

[facedown]

Robert Kagan is currently based in Brussels.

Robert Kagan is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book, Of Paradise and Power (Knopf, 2003), was on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and the Washington Post bestseller list for 14 weeks. It was also a bestseller in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada and has been translated into more than 25 languages. His next book, Dangerous Nation: America in the World, 1607-1898, will be published by Knopf in the fall of 2006.

[AntiGuv]

Robert Kagan is a typical neo-con.

[Cementjungle]

The first rule of advertising is to advertise your weakest point. That's exactly what's going on here.

[Brilliant]

The problem with the GOP is that it's become the Democratic Party.




Of course, the Democrats are now the Communists.

[Jameison]

"Robert Kagan! Yes you!

Put down the Peyote Beans and walk slowly towards the nice men in the white coats with the big butter-fly nets. They'll take you to a nice restful place."

Heh Heh!

[AmeriBrit]

Could the United States be better off with Democrat in the White House in 2009?
......................................................

NO!

[Mr. D]

You forgot to state "Barf Alert" for this article. Return the Dims back to the White House? Give me a break! To improve the foreign policy of our country? Lest we forget pre 911? Who was asleep at the wheel? The WP must suffer from a severe case of amnesia.

[sanjacjake]

There is no accountablity for these people and they
sway thousands of people with their idiotic statements
like this one..hell, the Democrats will sell their own
down the river...terrorists...what terrorists?..they
believe in arrestng them ..not killing them...if they
get in power ...build a bomb shelter..way underground...
like 15 feet. Jake

[TASMANIANRED]

Brilliant analysis.

[Savage Beast]

Washington Post: Democrat Propaganda Organ

Washington Post:Pravda (under the Soviets)::Democrat Party:Bolcheviks

[fieldmarshaldj]

"No one can claim any more that the old Clinton foreign policy team is less competent than the Republicans who succeeded it."

Oh, no ?

[JDoutrider]

The sad thing is, there are so many idiots that believe this moronic tripe...

[CyberAnt]

"The Democrats need to take ownership of American foreign policy again."


AGAIN ..?? This is the "false premise" the WP uses to pat their friends on the back. THE DEMS HAVE NEVER OWNED FOREIGN POLICY SINCE HARRY TRUMAN.

Kennedy tried .. but the bay of pigs was a miserable failure. He talked tough .. but forgot to put the money where his mouth was. I have serious doubts much would have been done about Russia if they had not caved to the blockade.

[Zeppo]

Eight years of Bill Clinton brought the Democrats mostly out of their post-Vietnam trauma and revived liberal interventionism.

Nothing but wishful thinking on the author's part.

[SandRat]

Hence the reference to the Peyote Beans.

[Zeppo]

Many Republicans imagined that everything that went wrong in the world during those two decades was the fault of Franklin Roosevelt and the Democrats. FDR "tricked" us into war with Japan. Then he gave away Eastern Europe at Yalta. Then Harry Truman adopted the disastrous strategy of containment.

Although unintentional on the author's part, those words are the most correct and insightful ones in the article.

[concerned about politics]

The Democrats need to take ownership of American foreign policy again, for their sake as well as the country's.

Which country? Red China? Cuba? Iran?