Obama, Foreign Policy Realist

I have enormous respect for Fareed Zakaria, and have several of his excellent books listed in my booklist (see sidebar). I strongly recommend his recent article Obama, Foreign Policy Realist. There have been many claims that Senator Obama is a far-left, dewy-eyed idealist. Fareed disagrees, and makes the case that in fact he is a foreign policy realist in the mold of Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft.