The reference is to a 2003 book by Robert Kagan, where he argues that Americans are more bellicose than Europeans simply because their country is more powerful. Americans from Mars, Europeans from Venus, get it?
Which is why I cannot help but note that a second pre-Paris attack poll showed that 61% of the French favored sending ground forces to take on the Islamic State, whereas according to a new Gallup poll, 53% of Americans oppose sending American soldiers into ISIS territory.
Venusians, indeed.
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