With his latest comic novel, “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?,” Christopher Buckley has done the truly improbable: He’s made neoconservative war-mongering funny. And, er, … sexy:

“Tall, blond, buff, leggy, miniskirted: Angel Templeton was hardly your typical Washington think-tank policy wonk. For the cover of her most recent book, The Case for Preemptive War: Taking the ‘Re-‘ Out of Retaliation, she posed in a red, white, and blue latex dominatrix outfit. With riding crop.”