Hillary seems stuck in ‘shop-worn’ paradigm of Fatah only

Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the ideas are bad. Ross was for colonies in the West Bank in the early 90s, the neocons were for the Iraq War. Today on NPR Tom Ricks says that the Iraq war was "the greatest mistake in the history of American foreign policy." It came out of bad ideas.