I will never allude to the brilliance of the Carter/Brzezinski foreign policy other than to say they could play duelling idiots with the Regan/Baker foreign policy guys. Really, those fools set us up for the current mess we are in: With Iraq, Iran, Osama and his al-Qaeda, the Oslo Accords and what has followed. There hasn't been a US foreign policy success since Truman -- and he's the one to let the atomic weapon genie out of the bottle -- some success ...