America's Political System Used To Be About

I Think There Needs To Be A Meeting To Set An Agenda For More Meetings About Meetings.

It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.

Getting The Support Of Syria Is The Moral Equivalent Of Winning The Klan's Endorsement - It Might Be Useful But It Doesn't Necessarily Speak Well Of You.

(j)ust To Clarify: If You Go Into Every Situation Saying There's Absolutely Nothing Worth Fighting Over, You Will Inevitably End Up On A Cot Sleeping Next To A Guy Named Tiny, Bringing Him Breakfast In His Cell Every Morning, And Spending Your Afternoons Ironing His Boxers. Or, In The Case Of The French, You Might Spend Your Afternoon Rounding Up Jews To Send To Germany, But You Get The Point.

In The Weeks Prior To The War To Liberate Afghanistan, A Good Friend Of Mine Would Ask Me Almost Every Day, “why Aren't We Killing People Yet?” And I Never Had A Good Answer For Him. Because One Of The Most Important And Vital Things The United States Could Do After 9/11 Was To Kill People. Call It A “forceful Response,” “decisive Action” ' Whatever. Those Are All Nice Euphemisms For Killing People. And The World Is A Better Place Because America Saw The Necessity Of Putting Steel Beneath The Velvet Of Those Euphemisms.