Kristol deploys.(Devil in the Details)(William Kristol )

DURING LAST YEAR'S presidential-election campaign, it became a staple of right-thinking commentary to suggest that the two candidates' foreign policies weren't nearly as different as the Sturm und Drang of stump rhetoric made it sound. John Kerry, after all, was not promising a withdrawal from Iraq, and given America's limited resources, further military action simply wouldn't be feasible in a second Bush term.

Of course, lack of a feasible plan for occupying Iraq didn't stop the president from doing it in 2003, and now neoconservatives outside the administration are gearing ...

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