John Edwards takes his turn in Foreign Affairs, explaining his foreign policy and showing how it differs from that of President Bush and his rivals for the Democratic nomination. On the critically important questions of how to deal with Iraq, and how to respond to international crises, Edwards is aimless–saying one thing, and proposing to do the opposite. He calls the approach ‘smart power,’ but it sounds more like ‘hope for the best.’ Edwards goes wrong early on:

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