Jacob Heilbrunn gets this point exactly right, and proves those in the realist camp wrong:

There is only one problem with the critics' scenario: The opposite of what they predicted is actually occurring. Bush hasn't retreated an inch rhetorically and is stepping up the battle in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney is ensuring that the neocons are being promoted everywhere in the administration.

I've been arguing this for weeks.

Posted by Laura at November 17, 2004 10:43 AM