(more excerpt) "There’s a version of realism that really doesn’t have a home in the post-Reagan Republican Party — one that tends to put its faith in Davos bromides rather than American sovereignty, that regards Israel as the source of almost every Middle Eastern problem, that’s allergic to the language of American exceptionalism, and that’s basically left-of-center on most non-foreign policy questions and culturally alienated from the religious conservatism that lies at the heart of the G.O.P. coalition.
But the fact that realists who fall into this category (like Colin Powell) or else have drifted into it (like Hagel, since 2004 or so) are now regarded with hostility by most Republicans emphatically does not mean that it’s impossible to sell a more restrained foreign policy vision to the Republican electorate.
You just have to actually, you know, sell it......"
Be sure to read the whole opinion piece, AND readers' response.
Still don't understand how he could have voted for the confirmation of Jew Hater Hagel. It seems like we are doing everything in our power to advance islam.
"Realism" -- a more restrained, more "modest" foreign policy that didn't attempt "nation-building" abroad -- got George W. Bush elected in 2000.
Whatever the heck it was that replaced it got Republicans thrown out of the White House and the Senate for some years already -- and maybe some years to come.