Voters will struggle to find a credible candidate from either of the two major parties willing to make the case for less military intervention. Robert Kagan and Ivo Daalder are satisfied with this. Most Americans should not be.
The elections just might deliver the strong medicine needed to jolt malignant Iraq policy back on course.
(This "Realist" column will appear as part of The National Interest's summer 2004 symposium, "Iraq at the Turn.