Obama’s foreign policy surprise.

Michael Goldfarb notes that “Barack Obama’s national security team is beginning to take shape and there is not a progressive in sight”

Victor Davis Hanson adds that if such a pleasant surprise plays out “Obama has not merely embarrassed his hard-left base, but has terribly humiliated the media as well.”

I say that before we get too excited that Obama might not be a third term of Jimmy Carter foreign policy — okay, yeah, that would be a nice surprise — let’s remember that these Brent Scowcroft “realist” types predicted the Petraeus Surge would fail (it didn’t), produced the Iraq Study Group (10 pounds of nonsense on paper filled with vaguries like “engaging” Iran, whatever the hell that means), and in general produced the same “stability over liberty” conditions in the Middle East that gave us neither for more than 60 years.