Senior Fellows, the Cookings at Brookings
I’m all for think-tanks. God knows we have little enough thinking going on today and if we have to fill tanks with something, better fellows than fish. Particularly Senior Fellows.
Michael O’Hanlon is just such a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (all capitalized) and he’s penned a prescription for How To Stop a Civil War.
Mike’s never actually been in a war, much less a civil one, but he’s got serious think-tank-type credentials; expertise in Arms treaties, Asian security issues, homeland security, Iraq policy, military technology, missile defense, North Korea policy, peacekeeping operations, U.S. defense strategy and budget.
I’m impressed. We all know how well arms treaties have served dealers and both homeland security and Iraq policy are brilliant examples of stunning achievement. Defense strategy and budget are veritable bookends of enlightened thinking, the one having almost single-handedly busted the other.
Michael opens his thesis with this dumbf…