It has been a long and rocky road for America's foreign policy elite since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985.

The response from Europe's policy elite?

Chomsky also denounces the dependence of foreign policy elites on special interests.

I'm not sure how many Americans, even among the policy elite, understand this.

Russia's foreign policy elite has been opposed.

For Russia's foreign policy elite, strong ties with these republics will help restore Moscow's status and prestige as a great power.

In fact, most foreign policy elites have spent the last few years explaining them away and counseling the West to do nothing.

The French economic policy elite no longer understand the world.

And the mood among the European policy elites has changed dramatically too.

In Hersh's world, by contrast, nothing the policy elites say is true actually is.