“Winnie-the-Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

–former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, one of Barack Obama’s key foreign policy advisers, June 11

The gathering of oh-so-sober pro-Obama foreign policy experts was drowning in solemnity and earnestness. Speaker after speaker had laboriously dilated on the important distinction–unappreciated by the oh-so-stupid-and-bad Bush administration–between soft power and hard power. And this is to say nothing of the synthesis of soft and hard in … smart power!