Speaking of arteriosclerosis, retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll of the Center for Defense Information says that the United States is acting like a schoolyard bully. The only excuse for warmed-over Reagan-era statements like these are if they’re being phoned in from some planet 20 light years away. He was speaking to the Tacoma PJH, or People for Peace, Justice and Healing, which, from the “clucks of approval from the audience and the standing and enthusiatic applause at the end,” seem to have their minds locked in amber as well.