The Great Divide In American Foreign Policy

American Public Opinion, As You Can See In The Polls, Radically Changed From Being Against Airstrikes To Being Heavily In Favor That [president Obama] Decided To Do Airstrikes. This Is A Classic Example Of Leading From Behind Where He Waits For Public Opinion. And Now It's The Public Who's Demanding He Do Something.

Guerrilla War Is A Test Of Wills. Obama's Actual Objectives - Rollback In Iraq, Containment In Syria - Are Not Unreasonable. But They Require Commitment And Determination. In Other Words, Will. You Can't Just Make One Speech Declaring War, Then Disappear And Go Fundraising.

I Believe In What I Believe, And I Think After All These Years I've Heard A Lot Of Arguments, And I'm Convinced By The Superiority Of The Arguments That Are Made On The Conservative Side. I Think That's A Better Way To Run A Society.

Whenever You're Faced With An Explanation Of What's Going On In Washington, The Choice Between Incompetence And Conspiracy, Always Choose Incompetence.

The Houthi Have Local Religious Grievances, Being Shiites In A Majority Sunni Land. But They Are Also Agents Of Shiite Iran, Which Arms, Trains, And Advises Them. Their Slogan - 'god Is Great. Death To America. Death To Israel' - Could Have Been Written In Persian.