Brutal

David P. Goldman, who blogs as Spengler at PJ Media, shares his view of the American foreign policy establishment.

Our foreign policy elite is a pack of hypocritical, yellow-bellied, two-faced, fork-tongued, lying polecats who wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it were tattooed on their ophidian foreheads.

What triggers his outburst is U.S. opposition to the Iraqi Kurd independence vote. COTTonLINE is inclined to agree with Kurdish nationhood aspirations. The Kurds may be the only "moderate" Muslims in the region.