RJ Eskow: Bipartisan Elite Agrees -- Surge, 'GWOT' Are Failures (And Hillary's Wrong) |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 12:53 pm |
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The left-wing blogosphere continues to slam the intellectual dishonesty of media-appointed foreign policy 'experts,' but there are people out there with real experience. A bipartisan group of former government officials has come to some very different conclusions than the pundits: The Surge is failing, the Global War on Terror has gone disastrously wrong, and Hillary Clinton has drawn some badly mistaken conclusions about America's safety. The journal Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress have published their annual survey of "America's 100 Most Respected Foreign Policy Experts" - State Department leaders drawn from from both political parties - and their evaluation of the Administration's "Surge" and the "Global War On Terror" is devastating. The GOP and the media keep telling us that protecting us from terrorism is a Republican Party strength. So how badly is this Republican Administration failing in that effort? 91 percent of this bipartisan group say the [ Full article ] |
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