Judis/Judas

There's a tendency among liberals to view current American foreign policy as exceptional rather than apotheotic. Fine. It is every United States of Amnesian's prerogative to ignore the history of American foreign policy from the Mexican land grab on down. Laugh all you want at the hippy-dippy ANSWER clowns getting pepper-sprayed outside of the School of the Americas. They, at least, had it figured out.

John Judis writing in The Non-Republic, weeps that we've become a rogue state, such as the saying goes, and while I quibble with the apparent timeline of the becoming, I say again: at least he figured it out.

Some other joker, meanwhile, takes to the rhetorical battlements with a hearty cry: "If Canada is overrun by Nazis, America shall fight!" That isn't a caricature of his hypothetical. For the record. His name is James Kirchick, and he indulges the bizarre American fantasy that "sovereignty" is a known quantity to be claimed, sort of like home equity but for whole nations. Transfer requires elaborate payments, percentages, and a Fannie-Mae-like international community approbating its "recognition." If the bank says it ain't yers, it ain't yers!