[Ben Ficklin]

Obama was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Plus, Obama had aligned himself with Richard Lugar who held the republican chair of the committee.

This is a foreign policy doctrine issue, not a political issue.

On one side are the NeoCon republicans aligned with the Liberal Interventionist democrats versus the Realists who can be a democrat or republican.

To put it another way: Republican Senator Mark Kirk and Democrat Senator Robert Menendez versus Republican Senator Bob Corker and Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein.

Or to put it another way: AIPAC versus J Street

[rmlew]

There is nothing realist about an ideology that declare ideology irrelevent. And there is nothing realist about allowing Iran to have nukes. It’s suicide by cowardice.