In the American Prospect, Matt Yglesias pens an essay that tries to put to rest the much ballyhooed idea that John McCain is caught in the middle of an epic neoconservative vs. realist battle for his foreign policy soul–instead arguing that McCain is a full-fledged neoconservative who had outlined and attempted to fulfill the Bush doctrine “several years before Bush ever articulated it.”
Reihan Salam tries to rein in Yglesias’ analysis, arguing that especially with regard to Iraq, McCain is merely responding to conditions on the ground, and is not guided so much by ideology.
Fareed Zakaria believes McCain’s foreign policy is “schizophrenic”, and that he’ll be unable to unite the two strands of foreign policy philosophy currently dividing the GOP.
