[bnelson44]

Scowcroft has been obliging. This week in The New Yorker he came out strongly against the war and the neocon sorcerers who magically foisted it upon what must have been a hypnotized president and vice president.

What? Again? How many times is he going to come out against the war? Can't you only do that once?

[JohnLongIsland]

scowcroft is the david souter of foreign policy.

[Fenris6]

Leftists will never understand reality-based foreign policy. We are in a GWOT - we either drain the swamp in the ME or create a police state here at home.

[Danae]

Go Chuckie! Go Chuckie! Go Chuckie!

[cynicom]

Scowcroft is a little man and little men in high places are dangerous. Seems some time ago that he is heavily involved in the Middle East oil cartel. A bought and paid for lackey.

[misterrob]

then, days later, during a massive U.S.-encouraged uprising of Kurds and Shiites when America stood by and allowed Saddam to massacre his opponents by the tens of thousands. (One of the reasons for Iraqi wariness during the U.S. liberation 12 years later was the memory of our past betrayal and suspicions about our current intentions in light of that betrayal...)

Not one of our finer moments.

[Mr. Mojo]

It is not surprising that Scowcroft, who helped give indecency [in the form of Saddam's Ba'athist Iraq] a 12-year life extension, should disdain decency's return. But we should not.

Spot on, Charles.

Scowcroft may hide behind "realism," but odds are he's simply a typical Israel-despising, dictator-loving Arabist.

[Beckwith]

I watched Cindy Sheehan on C-SPAN this AM.

My God! What an absolute weirdo and you have to hear her speak, what a voice. When you mix that with the stuff coming out of her mouth ~ truly unbelievable.

There were about 10 reporters in the room. All of them began their questions with words of support.

One guy finally got up and asked her about about all the organizations and people who truly support the troops and reject Sheehan as a fruit loop.

Sheehan's response was a five-minute ramble with no train of thought, simply slogans.

[pissant]

Sounds like a Barbra Steisand leftist to me.

[bigeasy_70118]

Scowcroft was Condi Rice's mentor during Bush I. I am glad to see that at least in an ideological sense she has abandoned that relationship.

[Pukin Dog]

And a nice smackdown it was.

[rmgatto]

It's nice to see Charles jumping from the ropes onto Scowcroft now that Meirs is gone from the ring.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Realists prize stability above all, and there is nothing more stable than a ruthlessly efficient dictatorship.

.....ruthlessly efficient dictator

[Reagan Man]

Brent Scowcroft is no Donald Rumsfeld.

[zerosix]

I justlove reading or better yet hearing Charles kick butt! Scocroft would have toasted the British during the Revolutionary War, then claimed that the Colonists really were an unsavory lot, who didn't know what freedom was and could never appreciate it.

It's high-time to toast bye bye to Scocroft and his ilk.

[Oatka]

But those difficulties came about not because, as Scowcroft tells us, ``some people don't really want to be free'' . . .

What an arrogant little SOB! How in L would this self-appointed elitist know what "some people" want, except in his own dream world?

[kesg]

Charles Krauthammer is my hero. First Miers, and now this.

[Capt. Tom]

Brent Scowcroft aka Brett Snowcroft.

[libstripper]

If we'd fully supported the Shiite/Kurd rebellion in 1991 Saddam would have been overthrown and unceremoniously killed by indigenous forces and we would not have had to liberate Iraq in 2003. Thus, at a minimal cost in lives and money we'd have achieved what is now costing us billions of dollars and has cost us over 5,000 lives (2,000 service personnel in Iraq and 3,000 ordinary Americans on 9/11) to date. All of this can be laid at the door of the "realism" of Powell and Scowcroft.