It Is Never Wrong To Be On

Politicians In Their Hubris Who Believe They Can Ignore Debt Or Wish It Away Are Sorely Disappointed - As We See Now With The Plummeting Approval Ratings Of Both The Administration And Congress.

The American People Are Not Naifs Who Yearn For Isolationism, But They Are Starting To Ask Some Hard Questions About The Way We Have Been Doing Business For 50 Years, And It May Well Be Time To Grant The French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, And A Host Of Others Their Wishes For Independence From Us: Polite Friendship - But No Alliances, No Bases, No Money, No Trade Concessions, And No More Begging For The Privilege Of Protecting Them.

It's Very Difficult, Historically, To Define What An Elite Is. But Whatever It Is, People Are Very Angry At That Idea, I Think, Not So Much Because Of Wealth Or Privilege As Much As Attitude That The Populous Masses, If I Could Use That Overused Term, Feel That A Particular Government Or Cultural Group Is Not Subject To The Ramifications Of Their Own Ideology.

If The Democrats Feel They Have Lost The Public's Confidence In Their Stewardship Of National Security, Then The Threat Of Iran Offers A Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Or John Kerry An Opportunity To Get Out Front Now And Pledge Support For A United Effort - Attacking Bush From The Right About Too Tepid A Stance Rather From The Predictable Left That We Are 'hegemonic' And 'imperialistic' Every Time We Use Force Abroad.

It's Radical Islamic Terrorism. And Yet, When You See The Last Eight Years, Something's Gone Wrong To Call It Violent Extremism Or Man-caused Disasters. It Would Be As If We Were Looking At [adolf] Hitler In The 1930s. And We Were Afraid To Say That He Was A Nazi.