Chalmers Johnson: Neocon ideology in wake of Cold War that identifies United States as a Colossus, a new Rome beyond good & evil. “We don’t need friends or int’l law. It doesn’t matter whether they love us or not, so long as they fear us.”

David Sirota: when a candidate's major message in a campaign is that he or she is "electable", what they are really saying is their candidacy lacks a concrete platform of convictions beyond their own personal ambition.