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The Washington Realist Launches Today
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Would you buy a used car from this man?
That's what one of the covers of a high school book I had on Machiavelli asked. Machiavelli, of course, is one of the patron saints of high octane realism.
Nikolas Gvosdev (pictured above) is Editor of The National Interest and is a Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center. He's a thoughtful, provocative guy -- who likes to wrestle with people and ideas. . .but more ideas than people. He's one of the folks I had guest blog when I was traveling in the summer -- and he provoked some of you to such a point that you were very eager for me to return.
Gvosdev is launching his own blog, The Washington Realist, today -- and we look forward to applauding and jousting with him frequently.
Recently, Nikolas Gvosdev and Nixon Center President and latter-day-Kissinger to Richard Nixon, Dimitri Simes, penned this response to Charles Krauthammer's bitter October 30th Washington Post rebuke against Brent Scowcroft's revelations in a recent New Yorker Magazine article. It's well worth reading.
Congrats on the blog launch, Nick.
-- Steve Clemons
Steve, thanks for the heads up. Nick Gvosdev made some good contibutions to TWN last summer, and The National Interest has definitely become a 'must read' over the last couple of years...
The Washington Realist, eh?
Anything like The Realist?
I remember that mag's story about LBJ and the JFK's assasination.
I thought that Gvosdev's response to the odeous
Krauthammer was very good. As he points out,
in making a decision where other people may die,
you get credit for the results, not what ever
fantasies you entertained when you set the events
in motion.
By my standards Mr. Gvosdev is a conservative. But
it is interesting to note that he is not a follower
of Dear Leader and his policies. An increasing number
of conservatives have or are breaking with
G.W. Bush, who is anything but a conservative.
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