Fair response. I agree that we all must make judgments. I might be overly biased by my post-hoc analysis of the reasoning behind the Iraq war fiasco and my no

Fair response. I agree that we all must make judgments. I might be overly biased by my post-hoc analysis of the reasoning behind the Iraq war fiasco and my notion that the broader, geopolitical themes provide most of the inertia for US/Russian dynamics. In light of your comment I'm curious how you assess the campaign that we've been discussing in this thread. I posed the question in a different sub-thread but I'd be very interested to read your response to it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701240