From Drivers to Hitchhikers

Foreign policy realists and the left-wing of American politics used to be in the driver's seat of American foreign policy. Now they're side-lined by the Bush administration's changes in that policy, and they don't like it one bit.

In fact, argues John Podhoretz, they're so fearful that success in Iraq will spell doom for them -- and glory for Bush -- that they would cheer the failure of this Sunday's Iraqi elections.

What does it tell us about such folks that they place their own reputations above the future of Iraqis and, by extension, other peoples who know, or recently knew, tyranny first-hand? Moreover, what does it tell us about the policies they advocate? Toward what end do they wish American policy to aim?

Short answer: Georgetown mansions, chic parties, and WaPo op-eds for themselves; tyranny for Arabs.