This passes as intellectual analysis of foreign policy in the US press

Look at this guy. Forget about politics and about my views of this most nimble of minds, but look at the quality of foreign (and economic) analysis: "You want more good jobs, spawn more Steve Jobs. Obama should have focused on that from Day 1. He must focus on that for Year 2." I mean, William Safire and Flora Lewis and Anthony Lewis did not write like this.