After thirteen grueling years at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Robert Kagan has fulfilled his lifelong goal of bringing about Peace In Our Time and so now he is taking his show on the road  and, by “on the road”, we mean across town to the Brookings Institution:

Kagan joins Brookings’s Foreign Policy program and will be affiliated with its Center on the United States and Europe.

Kagan tells me he’s known Brookings President Strobe Talbott and its Vice President of Foreign Policy Studies Martin Indyk for years. (Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland, currently the U.S. Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces, was Talbott’s chief of staff for seven years in the Clinton administration.)

“So it feels like family,” Kagan said by e-mail, adding “I had a great 13 years at Carnegie, and it was great working for Jessica” — Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment.

Kagan hopes to use his new perch — just one building away from his old one — to “build an open, bipartisan dialogue on foreign policy that’s been missing in D.C. for a while,” he adds.

You may remember  Kagan’s Greatest Hit when, while perched at  the Endowment for International Peace,  he co-signed a letter (along with Billy Kristol, Frankie Gaffney, Charlie Krauthammer,  and Marty Peretz among others) asking then-President George W. Bush to bomb the holy shit out of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11… just because.

This, of course, brought about stability to the region, as well as world peace, and now Kagan can comfortably move on to the more natural environs of the “liberal” Brookings Institution where he can work alongside fellow dirty-fucking hippies, Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack.

This is gonna be so groovy, man…