"""However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking

"""However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east.""" Yeah. And I wouldn't trust the foreign policy knowledge of such a person. A person not interested in checking out for himself the geography of the place of war, and even the culture and history of the enemies, is just an idiot being force-fed news stories.