You Can't Take The Politics Out of Politics

And you can't take it out of foreign policy, either, as Moira Whelan argues. The idea that national security issues can or should exist in some pristine universe beyong the petty cut-and-thrust of actually existing American politics is dumb and counterproductive.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/08/you-cant-take-the-politics-out-of-politics/45787/