Abu Ghraib. L’Affaire Chalabi. George Tenet’s resignation. More conservative defections from the war enterprise. A circular firing squad of feuds — between John McCain and Denny Hastert, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay. These have been, to state the obvious, a rough couple of months for the Republicans. Talk of the administration’s “wheels coming off” abounds. […]
Danny Postel
Danny Postel is a contributing editor to Daedalus and to openDemocracy.net. He has written for
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Realistpolitik
John Mearsheimer, one of the pre-eminent representatives of the realist school of international relations, voted for George W. Bush in 2000. But not this time. Come November, he’s not only voting for John Kerry but “will do so with enthusiasm.” As a realist, the University of Chicago political scientist liked Bush’s anti-nation-building rhetoric during the […]