Amen and amen.

Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic:

But I insist that a prospective president's insights on China, Russia and Mexico, to cite three examples, are incomparably more vital than their thoughts on Morocco, Tunisia, and even Libya. Isn't it odd that countries with the capability of killing us by the tens of millions with nuclear weapons, or else bordering our homeland and losing a war against drug cartels, often go unmentioned?

Just as in 2001 we could not have imagined where the next big threat to national security would come from, we may one day look back on this as the time when we could have done something, could have been paying attention, but weren't.