QUOTE OF THE DAY….From an unnamed British civil servant, explaining the the “erection theory of British foreign policy”:

If you fly into Camp David on a helicopter, it’s instant arousal. But if you have to go to a European summit in Brussels, it’s so depressing you’re impotent for a week.

Via Dan Drezner.

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