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In reality, the great majority of those who are labeled by themselves and by others as foreign policy experts are anything but. Their only real expertise is to figure out the prevailing orthodoxy, particularly when an aggressive right wing regime is in power, and generally conform to it. How many of these "experts" were actually willing to discuss the very fundamental issue of whether a country has the legal and moral right to send its military into another sovereign country and occupy it. Take O'hanlon for example. I could have a 5 minute discussion with him and prove to anybody needing a proof that his knowledge of Iraq is rudimentary at best and that he wouldn't be able to tell the difference if the level of violence at any given time was either up or down by 50 percent. The scary thing is that most of those so called experts are actually more ignorant and more clueless than him.
