Those silly Europeans

Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power, 2003:

American policymakers have found it hard to believe, but leading officials and politicians have worried more about how the United States might handle or mishandle the problem of Iraq--by taking unilateral and extralegal military action--than they ever worried about Iraq itself and Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

Since then, neocon Kagan has hit upon the solution of treating China primarily as a problem, while the rest of us--given the neoconservative stewardship of the size of the Iraq problem--are onto the problem of treating neoconservatism as any kind of a solution.

Shifting balances of terror

Daniel Drezner reports he is off to a conference entitled "Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges."

Reminds me of the classic Harvard (or was it National?)Lampoon parody of Newsweek, unforgettably entitled "Nuclear Arms and Terrific Legs: The Atomic Threat to America's Cover Girls."