01.06.08
I cede the floor to Ms. Rosett
Every once in a while, I get a train of thought going that I think would make a good BN post, but I just can’t get a handle on how to articulate it. Then along comes a column by one of today’s towering minds, a link to which solves it all for me.
Such is the case with today’s piece by Claudia Rosett. She points out the irony that our Iraq effort may turn out to be the singular foreign-policy success of the W years, just as that administration’s mush-headedness in current hot spots like North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Israel / “Palestine” increases the sum total of our peril.
Mr. Dings said,
January 6, 2008 at 5:45 pm
All’s well that ends well. We might refine our strategies for the next hot spotsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
January 6, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Rosett’s point is exactly thus: who in our government has the clarity to refine the strategies? (Especially now that the great John Bolton is gone.)
Mr. Dings said,
January 6, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Could it be that military options are off the table only because we’re stretched too thin at present? And that’s true weakness. I’d like to think that we are negotiating out of the strength that right is might.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
January 6, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Best Christmas present I got this year: Surrender Is Not An Option by John Bolton. God, I wish this guy were running for president. I know of no one on the whole political landscape who has as unwavering a fealty to America’s interests all over the globe, each second as history unfolds.