The Fact Is That We Have Been

In The Case Of [donald] Trump, He Was Able To Tell People That Elites Live In Gated Communities, Where They Have Walls Around Their Home.

Can-do Americans Courageously Go About Their Duty In Iraq - Mostly Unafraid That A Culture Of 2,000 Years, The Reality Of Geography, The Sheer Forces Of Language And Religion, The Propaganda Of State-run Arab Media And The Cynicism Of The Liberal West Are All Stacked Against Them.

The Problem With Deterrence - Apparently Sometimes Forgotten By Our Former Presidents - Is That It Is Not Static, But A Creature Of The Moment, Captive To Impression, And Nursed On Action, Not Talk. It Must Be Maintained Hourly And Can Erode Or Be Lost With A Single Act Of Failed Nerve, Despite All The Braggadocio Of Threatened Measures. And, Once Gone, The Remedies Needed For Its Restoration Are Always More Expensive, Deadly - And Controversial - Than Would Have Been Its Simple Maintenance.

What Is About Palin That Drives The Elite, Especially Elite Women, Crazy? Great Looks? That Middle-america Accent? The 5 Kids And He-man Husband? The Lack Of A Powerful Father Or Spouse Who Could Jump-start Her 'feminist' Career With Money, Contacts, And Influence? That Idaho Ba? The Wink? The Charisma And, Indeed, Sensuality So Lacking In Her Angry Critics?

Ignorance And Arrogance Are A Lethal Combination. Nowhere Do We See That More Clearly Among Writers And Performers Who Pontificate As Historians When They Know Nothing About History.