I actually disagree with Atrios on this one.

Quoth Duncan:

As a couple of people have suggested in comments here and at MY's place, it appears that the lunatic foreign policy provisions of Adam Yoshida, prime proponent of the "keep smashing the hornet's nest with a baseball bat while liberally dosing it with insecticide until the pony appears" theory of foreign relations, have now been thoroughly mainstreamed in the guise of the Very Serious Roger Cohen.

If anyone should be annointed the dean of the smash-the-hornet's-nest-wait-for-the-pony school of foreign policy, it's Putz.