...distant, sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to Utopian bliss.

It is easy, therefore, to understand the conservative argument in the USA and UK against the Iraq war. Going to war in Iraq is complicated to say the least. Indeed, George W. Bush's foreign policy often seems to owe more to Democrat internationalism than Republican realism. Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser to Bush, embodies the conservative anti-war position. In a recent interview with the New Yorker's Geoffrey Goldberg, he recalled,

[US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] ... says we're going to democratise Iraq, and I said, "Condi, you're not going to democratise Iraq," and she said, "You know, you're just stuck in the old days," and she comes back to this thing that we've tolerated an autocratic Middle East for fifty years and so on and so forth ... But we've...

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