The problem is, in the modern republican party dominated by NeoCons, realists don't have a lot of pull.
Well, I might agree at least in the sense that most of our leaders, McCain et al., are idiots and therefore can do nothing right. I do not like this term "NeoCon" since it fills into Ron Paul type narratives, though I know that people use it and might not necessarily use it the way a Paulistinian does.