Mona @ U.O. links approvingly to John Cole’s merciless slamming of David Brooks’ head-up-ass explanation for the state of modern “conservatism”.  One of the comments to that post links to this post quoting an example of right-wing alarmism — conveniently from Eric “questioning war is unamerican” Dondero.  From THERE, clicked to another post on the same site, to reach a pondering about how rare it is these days for representatives of nations we’re being taught to expect war with to state their case.  In other words: “WTF…we talked to the Soviets, but merely suggesting it concerning nations that have no chance in hell of making a dent on us even if they wanted to gets you the Evil Eye?”