I am writing from Vernon, not from a television studio in Washington, D.C., and that matters because I am not some talking head whose opinion is bought and paid for. Rightly or wrongly, my opinion comes from the heart. Around here, foreign policy is not an abstract chess game played by people with clean hands and taxpayer-funded pensions. In Washington County, national mistakes show up at the gas pump, in the grocery bill, and at the kitchen tab…