The debate over Josh Marshall’s charge that the Bush administration is deceiving the American people about its foreign policy goes on. I was ready to drop the matter, but yesterday Instapundit cited a compendium of links on the debate. I hope I’ll be forgiven for mentioning that my second contribution to the great Josh Marshall neocon debate was not included among the links. My second response to Marshall is called, “The Vision Thing.”

Basically, my response to Josh Marshall in “The Vision Thing” is that his defense of his deception charge makes no sense. In his reply to my first piece, Marshall admits that the Bush administration hasn’t yet made up it’s mind about how far to take either regime change or democratization in the Middle East. Marshall even expresses hope that the administration will refuse to go along with the most ambitious “neocon” plans. So how can Marshall charge the administration with deception for failing to sell the country on a policy that, by Marshall’s own admission, the president has yet to adopt?