They’ve been crying out in the wilderness for a few years now — the folks who oppose the Bush foreign policy not because “Bush lied” or because they want “no blood for oil” or because the U.S. has no business doing anything. These are the realists, the supposed voices of reason who think American foreign policy needs to deal with the world as it is and to seek knowable stability as opposed to unknowable change. There’s been a realist glaze over the attack on Bush policy in Iraq, but it’s really just a glaze — the real opposition is, of course, passionate and partisan. The Palestinian election last week offers the first real opportunity for the realists to say “I told you so” — and there isn’t a whole lot Bushies can say about it except, perhaps, what I said in a column on Friday, which is that trading Hamas for Fatah is no big deal because Fatah is a terrorist organization and so is Hamas. Even so, watch as the op-ed pages and “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and other venues are overrun by Brent Scowcroft and various writers and editors of Foreign Affairs and other two-dimensional thinkers. It’s their moment and they’re going to make the most of it.