PRESIDENT ASH CARTER DEMANDS A KINDER, GENTLER MILITARY: “Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told sailors aboard the USS Blue Ridge that ‘the American approach to things’ is ‘not to carve things up, it’s not to intimidate people or to coerce people to exclude people.’”

So much for the notion of “peace through strength” and “We win, they lose.” But hey, better dead than rude, right?

(Classical reference in headline.)