When the world is hot and dangerous, I feel a special need to talk with Elliott Abrams. I have done so in the latest Q&A podcast. Elliott, as you know, was a State Department official under Reagan (a wunderkind) and a key national-security staffer under George W. Bush.

Maybe I should specify that Elliott was the wunderkind, back then, not Reagan, who was thought rather old? (On the ’80 campaign, his people took to calling him “the O&W,” the Oldest and Wisest.)

I wanted to talk to Elliott about Iran, and Obama. I wanted to talk to him about Cuba, and Obama. And about Russia and a couple of other things. Elliott did not disappoint, needless to say. He has never been clearer or sharper.

Frankly, I intend to listen to this podcast myself, just to absorb, further, what the guy has said. Again, that link.