All too many libertarians could care less about the statism that causes the problems of income disparity, but goballistic over the statism intended to alleviate it.
Then Iran: after Israel strikes, the world will be poised at the chaotic edge, like a classroom (again) that could either goballistic or merely titter and settle down, depending on cues from the teacher.
Rice will also go to Warsaw to sign a formal agreement with Poland to base ballistic missile interceptors there -- another move, along with the eastward expansion of NATO, that has angered Moscow.