[madrussian]

American interests, articulated by Bush, are to hunt down the terrorists wherever they are. If they find harbor in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, that's who the enemy becomes, quite regardless of what the Weekly Standard says, or Buchanan says. Since the terrorist cells are extranational (Osama is Yemeni and grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taliban are Pushtun-Pakistani, some of the perps of 9/11 were Egyptians, Palestinians have a terror network of their own), it is foolish to limit the war to any particular country at the outset.

All that is well and good, but the issue here is that the worst war mongers belong to the neocon camp and that their motives are highly suspect due to their record of Israel-first policies. Neocons are the last ones to ask what American foreign policy should be and their opinions are the least trustworthy.

[annalex]

Still, normally, we look at the policy first and the article looks at the people supporting the policy and attacks the policy based on the fact that the neocons support it, and not on the merits of the policy itself.