Brzezinski's Polemic

When it comes to the question of war in Iraq, the pundits are usually divided up into the hawks who want war, and the doves who don't. But many of the voices we are hearing aren't against the war per se, but against how the Bush administration is pursuing that war. In today's Post, Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that any decision to go to war needs to fit within a sound analysis of US national security priorities, and you can almost hear his dismay and anger at Bush for avoiding that essential context. Brzezinski is no dove, which just goes to show that the appropriate division now is between the super-hawk Bushies and everyone else who wants US foreign policy to be based on real security needs.