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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The foreign policy community

America's bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxies and their scholar-guardians are in desperate need of challenge.

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  • Thursday, August 9, 2007 10:12 AM

    Circle jerk...

    ...says it.

    Thanks, Glenn, for (again) going beneath the surface of the superficial MSM coverage of the candidates' positions and expecially their disagreements. The importance of "experience" is to reassure "the serious" that they can ignore anyone who steps outside the bounds of their framing of the issues. Hence, eternal "war."

    Begs lots of interesting questions, e.g. does Hillary have too much "experience." Next book?

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