FAIR-WEATHER HAWKS: Jeremy Lott is unimpressed with what Mickey Kaus calls “balking hawks,” those who were pro-war and are now waffling. Lott writes:

Read enough of Marshall or Friedman . . . or any number of other temporizing liberal hawks, and a sort of myopic utopianism will come into sharp focus. They want a world in which America is both loved and feared. That would, of course, be ideal. But sometimes you can’t have both.

Indeed.