[goldstategop]

Its funny if it weren't such garbage. I think Robert Kuttner forgot to mention Israel. The neo-cons have far from taken over our entire foreign policy. They have influence to be sure but there's no organized cabal running the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Kuttner's talk of a foreign policy hijacking is just a figment of his overactive imagination and its striking how liberals and paleo-cons see something that isn't there.

[A. Pole]

Kuttner's talk of a foreign policy hijacking is just a figment of his overactive imagination and its striking how liberals and paleo-cons see something that isn't there.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! It is just a figment of your overactive imagination.

[zacyak]

They have influence to be sure but there's no organized cabal running the Bush Administration's foreign policy.

You can't deny that this administration's foreign policy is one of the more aggressive and ambitious (not to mention expensive) ones we've had in a long time. How many hundreds of billions are they willing to spend in this experiment to re-make Iraq in the image of a western democracy? We will be repaying this bill over the next two generations, and there is no guarantee as of yet that the Iraqi people will willingly embrace these changes and not revert to some sort of Islamic regime somewhere down the line. The neocons have led us into a bold and expensive gamble with Iraq, and the American taxpayer is stuck with footing the enormous bill for it whether we like it or not. Funny that nobody hinted at the real costs of this prior to the war.