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When 'thoughtful' is unthoughtful: Sen. Richard Lugar and the disastrous 'middle way' on Iraq.(AT WAR III)

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| September 10, 2007 | Lowry, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IF you are a Republican, there is no ticket to being considered thoughtful quite like dissenting from President Bush's Iraq policy. Few senators stand to be as "thoughtful" in this sense in the September debate over Iraq as the six-term Indiana Republican Richard Lugar.

Not that getting such credit will be Lugar's motivation. Everyone--even those who doubt his vaunted foreign-policy acumen--credits Dick Lugar's sincerity. He doesn't lord his supposed intellectual superiority over others--as Chuck Hagel does. He is not putting political considerations over the national interest--as so many Democrats do. He's not a puffed-up parody of a senator--like John Warner ...

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