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One link, actually. To an article which, after a lovely introduction, provides the 12 lessons for becoming "a super serious chin stroking elder statesman foreign policy elite [in America]."

Without further delay, lesson #1:

"Being “strong” on a given foreign policy subject is directly proportional to your willingness to blow people/things up, with as little hesitation as possible. Considering any other option betrays your weakness, indecision and inner Frenchman. Further, refusing to bomb a given country is always the equivalent of Chamberlain appeasing Hitler and such reticence will have similar results. Always."

And so it continues. Happy reading.