Anonymous Sources Are A Practice Of American

We Should Never Go To War Unless We Have Been Attacked Or Are Under Direct, Immediate Threat Of Attack. Never. And Never Again.

For Me, A Really Radical Position For Journalism To Take Is To Stop Being Cynical. Cynicism Is What Passes For Insight Among The Mediocre.

The Two-war Strategy Was A Product Of The Cold War, When We Had To Have The Ability To Fight The Russians On The Plains Of Europe And Fight The Chinese On The Korean Peninsula At The Same Time. That Costs An Awful Lot Of Money.

We`re Facing A Very Different Sort Of Threat Now, A More Amorphous Threat, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, And So On. And So The Military Has Abandoned The Two-war Strategy.

I Believe That Poverty Is Often The Result Of Inappropriate Behavior - Out-of-wedlock Births, Dropping Out Of School, Crime And Drugs - Which Should Not Be Rewarded. But Often It Isn't, And Common Decency Requires That We Take Care Of The Least Of These.