Mothers, don't let your children grow up to be Yalies. David Brooks is co-teaching a "grand strategy" course there.
I knew times were tough for neocons, but why is Yale so hard up?
At any rate, Brooks's latest, based on his scholarly pursuits, is a full-throated cri de coeur against President Obama's "insouciance, obliviousness, and self-congratulation" (I'm quoting Brooks quoting a fellow tough-guy academic) in the irredeemable face of Russia's and China's and the Middle East's foul determination.
What we really need, says Brooks, is "the credible threat of political, financial and hard power enforcement."
Here, Brooks is, no doubt, evoking the empirical splendors of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld, though oddly enough he fails to cite their many foreign-policy successes. Humility, I suppose.
Let's just hope that Brooks isn't depriving Yale's students of his inner knowledge of creative writing history and grand strategy.