This is part of a point-counterpoint column. See “I Could Be Wrong” here.

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ay may be right about American naïveté.  Maybe one day we’ll look back and laugh about our shock that a foreign government tried to tilt the scales in a presidential election.  Hopefully we’ll never become that jaded, but who knows?

Conflating issues leads to foggy thinking. Let’s try for a bit of clarity: (1) It’s not a big secret that national leaders have long m...