Just the Hanks and Marvins and bright, smiling Billy Joes who perished long ago. For a deluded war against an enemy of the imagination. There is no news. There is never any news. Away, beyond the Wall, stands the monument to those who went to Korea and did not return - and there, just across the Potomac, is Arlington cemetery, a forest of battles past.
Foreign policy is no board game.
Foreign policy offers up its human pawns and hacks their memory in stone. The old soldiers of cold war diplomacy chunter their wis dom of decades past to the Daily Mail. But there is another dimension to this debate, an American dimension. The question for us in a new century filled with new challenges is what we may rightly ask for and what it is reasonable to expect that Washington will do. It's easy to bash the United States, especially on the morning after the weekend of Hague collapse.