>Unfortunately a lexis search of the times for "kaplan" and "imperialism"
>turns up nothing for the last year (except for a chapter from his book,
>excerpted on the web). Can you think where else you might have read it?
Though I am never absolutely positive about anything, I am *almost* absolutely positive that it was in the New York Times that this Kaplan article appeared. It could be that Hartung is quoting something different than that, but I do distinctly remember this sounding familiar to me and that it was from a Kaplan piece in the Times. I meant to hold on to the editorial, to wave it in the face of my friend who recommended the guy, but I didn't. Wish now I had, to help you out.
Eric