And then most of the problems we're facing now—the lead of our foreign policy should not be force. Force has got to be there, and it's got to play a role, particularly in the issue of terrorism, fighting terrorism. But basically, it's got to be diplomacy and economics, and organizing alliances for action to tackle these problems. That's got to come first. And Kagan really doesn't put much store in organizing coalitions to tackle problems—it's all about assertion of American might.

It appears Barack Obama thinks quite highly of Patriarch Kagan:

Barack Obama, who barely converses with leaders in Congress, treated Robert Kagan to a private lunch this past summer. Imagine those two great foreign-policy minds, the king of the neocons and the budding hard-liner, dining together.