Six figures in masks enter the Office of Special Plans in Washington. They greet each other under portraits of Leo Strauss:

COVE: … and this ignoramus writer says to me “The father of the neocons invented blue jeans?” I was embarrassed for him. “Leo,” I said, “you pecker. Not Levi. Leo Strauss.”

DICK: Gentlemen, gentlemen, settle down. I’d like to call this meeting of the Office of Special Plans to order. Rum Rum, how does it look?

RUM RUM: We are currently sufficiently deployed, locked and loaded, cocked and ready, champin’ at the bit, poised for engagement, steady ready Freddy.

DICK: Excellent. How’s the coalition building?

RUM RUM: Slow, but good news. Luxembourg is in. As to the rest of them—Germany, France, Russia—I say, fuck ’em.

PEARLY WHITE: Double fuck France. Well, I can’t spea ...

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