November 15, 2002

'Realists' Are Not Alone in Opposing War With Iraq

By JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER and STEPHEN M. WALT

Robert J. Lieber's lengthy critique of an ad that appeared in The New York Times explaining why war with Iraq is not in America's national interest is both peculiar and wrong ("Foreign-Policy 'Realists' Are Unrealistic on Iraq," The Review, October 18). It is peculiar because Lieber tried to show that the signatories' opposition to such a war is based on the theory of structural realism, which he regards as a misleading guide to this issue.

We are two of the 33 scholars who placed the

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