This is unfortunately so typical of media debate on things like Iran. On Fareed Zakaria GPS today, you have a hawk's hawk neocon, Bret Stephens, foreign policy columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and a 'realist' establishment strategist, Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, discussing Iran with Fareed. Stephens is making a strong case for military action and regime change, whereas Haass has just changed his position from diplomacy to possible military action.
So where is the responsible anti-interventionist voice, someone like Andrew Bacevich or the like? Or is the media assuming that anti-intervention is not responsible and therefore not an option? I think that's the assumption, which is why we had no real debate on the invasion of Iraq and most other military actions we've taken over the years.
I like Fareed, but I'm really sick of this lack of full debate. Will we ever learn?
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