Well-known dirty fucking hippie Fareed Zakaria is frustrated by the puerile and superficial critiques of the Obama administration’s foreign policy made by the Washington Post‘s editorial and op-ed pages:

The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own—Russian demands are by definition unacceptable. The only way to deal with countries is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it’s imperial policy. And it isn’t likely to work in today’s world.

Really read the whole column. It’s refreshing to see a guy with his own show on CNN take powerful editorial boards to task for not thinking foreign-policy problems through from the perspective of first principles.