To: durasell
Kaplan is brilliant, but he is not an optimist. A realist is an optimist with experience. Kpalan has been there and seen it, and he knows that there aren't any easy answers.
8 posted on
12/31/2004 11:30:47 AM PST by
Malleus Dei
("Communists are just Democrats in a hurry.")
To: Malleus Dei
Get back to me on that after you've read An Empire Wilderness...
9 posted on
12/31/2004 11:38:39 AM PST by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: Malleus Dei
My thoughts as well, which is why he is the prime example of a "pragmacon". Read the link in the story to his November 2002 article discussing what Iraq might look like after Saddam, as well as dealing with Iran.
10 posted on
12/31/2004 12:06:07 PM PST by
crushkerry
(Visit www.crushkerry.com to see John Kerry's positions filleted))
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