"Yes," Tancredo answered. "The State Department -- boy, when they start complaining about things I say, I feel a lot better about the things I say, I'll tell you right now."It's striking to recall how recently it was that this sort of "if the knowledgeable professionals at the State Department think it's a bad idea, it must be the right thing to do" mentality was conventional wisdom among conservatives and liberal hawks -- "Arabists" was a term of derision to indicate people without the vision and idealism necessary to give us a horrifying bloodbath in Iraq and call it democracy.
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