The Richard Armitage I knew

USA TODAY - For more and to sign up click here Dov S. Zakheim, opinion contributor Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage — who passed away this week at the age of 79 — was no ideologue. In fact, he couldn’t stand them. He was a realist, but his realism was not based on academic theories. Instead, he operated on the basis of his instinctive understanding of the national interests of his foreign…