Robert Kagan, the chief theorist behind the United States' aggressive new foreign policy is positively brutal (not to mention hopelessly pessimistic) about what's going on in Iraq right now (via TalkingPointsMemo and other places). An odd hawk-dove consensus is emerging. Despite the fact that over half of all Americans actually want to get out of Iraq, something's definitely up when you have both Robert Kagan and Howard Dean demanding that we flood the zone.