This man is Washington's candidate

[Duncan Smith] is a man Washington can do business with. He speaks the same language as American conservatives. Indeed, he often outdoes them in the gloominess of his prognoses. America and Britain are always facing mortal peril at the hands of "rogue states", armed with terrible weapons. At the American Enterprise Institute in 1999, Duncan Smith spoke of the "iron chains of missile proliferation... growing in power and strength" from the Pacific to North Africa.