This Is What We Mean When We Talk About the 'Blob'

Nothing alarms and terrifies these people more than the end of a U.S. war.

Members of the foreign policy establishment cultivate a narrow range of opinions, they generally hold most of the same core assumptions about what the U.S. role in the world should be, they reflexively demand U.S. “action” in response to foreign crises and conflicts, and they are quick to condemn deviations from the accepted line. They also really hate …