Bob Rae: Like all strategies, there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip. While the names of the authors of this document are unknown, its rhetoric is at times so extreme and dismissive of the efforts and interests of others, so deeply ideological despite its emphasis on “realism” that it can only expect the strongest possible reaction, whether from erstwhile allies of the United States or longtime opponents of American policies.
Leaders need followers. As time goes on, this document, and the doctrines it espouses, will have fewer, and not more followers…