Here is Leslie H. Gelb adopting the rhetorical guise of the outsider to the Washington insiders who make and endlessly argue about Foreign Policy, intellectuals dedicated to the American Interest. He is one of those insiders, who receive calls from the White House about matters of import. Mr. Gelb freely and boastfully reported on that at The Daily Beast, so the pose of outsider rings absolutely hollow, except to add a certain luster, not to speak of necessary ballast, to his policy analysis. Hillary Clinton delivers a speech that emphasizes economic power over military power, in the midst of our precipitous economic decline, and Mr. Gelb through his celebratory rhetoric, stumbles over himself manufacturing encomiums to Madame Secretary. My curiosity is peaked. What is afoot in the halls of power? Or did Mr. Gelb, like so many others, find the latest government concocted dark comedy, with Iran as it central villain, too unpalatable and farfetched to even consider seriously?
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