In the middle of emailed pushback from a “QDR-weary defense official” to a QDRgnostic Tom Ricks comes this phrase, packed full of win:

It’s not “Obama enough!” some like Peter Singer exclaimed in a LA Times op-ed — as if all we needed to do was insert some soaring rhetoric to solve problems (“Yes we can, manage risk prudently across a range of contingencies!”)

You often hear from policymakers the lament that sensible decisionmaking doesn’t fit on a bumper-sticker. Well, hell. I am going to a print shop. Then I am going to make an energetic argument to Attackerlady that this ought to grace the scruffed bumper on her Jetta. A prudent argument.