What remains to be seen and the Center for Security Policy earnestly hopes the Strauss confirmation hearings will reveal is whether or not the Ambassador and his friends in the Senate are prone to be "naively optimistic" in so reckless, and potentially dangerous, a fashion.
What remains to be seen -- and the Center for Security Policy earnestly hopes the Strauss confirmation hearings will reveal -- is whether or not the Ambassador and his friends in the Senate are prone to be "naively optimistic" in so reckless, and potentially dangerous, a fashion.
And I remain optimistic, but not naively so, that this is going to be hard work and each side is going to have to look inward to determine what is in their long-term interests, and not just what are in their short-term tactical interests, which tends to perpetuate a conflict as opposed to solving it.