Batten down the hatches

Writing in the Weekly Standard, former Bush administration official Elliott Abrams urges a bunker mentality to fight the Obama administration's foreign policy, and calls on the spirit of Abrams' late mentor, Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson (D-Wash.) (pictured). One begins to wonder how far we will drift into a new period of generalized disaster. In Honduras, we back the Hugo Chávez acolyte and say