"Somewhere," writes Matt Duss on Daniel Pipes' involvement with the Giuliani campaign, "there's a sci-fi movie missing its villain." And right he is. It's almost unimaginable what a crew of lunatics Giuliani has assembled to advise him on matters of foreign policy. Compared to Guliani's group, Bush's war cabinet -- both in its original "Vulcans" phase and it's current, more realist incarnation -- is comforting and sane. Giuliani's advisers are definitional dead-enders, who've taken the failure of every neocon initiative as a reason to double down on the program, which means bombing Iran, and soon. So it really can't be said enough: Giuliani is a profoundly dangerous candidate, in a way no one else running for the nomination necessarily is. He's unschooled on foreign policy, with no record to speak of, and a cast of advisers who'd make Rumsfeld blanch. And so though Duss didn't do this himself, I'll link back to his old article on the actual opinions held by Giuliani's team. Best read in the dark, holding a flashlight beneath your chin. --Ezra Klein
