Last week, The Washington Post reported that the Beltway's foreign policy elite is salivating at the prospect of a more hawkish Hillary Clinton administration. Apparently, the Obama administration's reluctance to intervene directly in Syria is driving the liberal interventionalists and the neocons crazy. The out-of-power imperialists of the left and right, though, have been biding their time and doing what they do best: writing reports that only the foreign policy elite read inside the imperial city. Absurdly, or maybe the better word is frighteningly, the foreign policy elite's reports and...