From Dafna Linzer’s piece in the Post on the rise of “Gen X” NSC staffers …

At the NSC, staffers said the gap is most noticeable when their boss, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, recounts his years as an arms control negotiator during the Cold War. “We’re like ‘Arms control, what’s that?’” said Michael Allen, Hadley’s special assistant for legislative affairs.

“I often hear about arms control from the old-timers, but it’s so different now. It’s about all the places we don’t have embassies now and it’s very rare, it seems, that [Congress] is lobbying the executive branch to engage. Most of the times it’s isolate, how can we isolate a country even more?” said Allen …

Sigh.

The article is loaded with Sesame Street and Brady Bunch references, which leads me to wonder (1) what would Big Bird think about our current foreign policy and (2) if one of these kids takes the tiki doll back to burial ground, will things go back to normal?