The "Thinking Brains" of Foreign Policy

On my right, we have the military-industrial complex. If you haven't (yet) watched "Why We Fight", the excellent documentary by Jarecki, I recommend you do. Particularly during election time, it's always good to be reminded about the threat to checks and balances in the government.

McCain is interviewed in this documentary - quite interesting position he lays out (I hope this arouses your curiosity - seriously - watch this documentary!)

On my left, "top foreign policy experts". I love this graph:What this says is that "experts" completely changed their predictions within 11 months - does this suggest that asking for their opinion is probably rather useless, as it is bound to change with the ebb and flow of realities on the ground?

Is there any predictive value to this? I really doubt it: this poll, if it does anything at all, only re-affirms what everyone already knows. I hope we are not using these "expert opinions" to inform our foreign policy strategy (oh wait. we are.)