Real Wars and the U.S. Culture War.

The culture-war surge in the U.S election campaign has come at the expense of meaningful debate about the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's dangerous because they stand at critical junctures. We've had Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention setting a new low for foreign policy with her attempt to mock Barack Obama's approach to international terrorists: ''He's worried that someone won't read them their rights.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]