We Have Had Raucous Moments In Our

We May Casually Talk Of All Sorts Of New Programs And 'stimulus,' But The Vast Trillion-dollar Collective National Debt And Rising Annual Deficits Will Insidiously Hamstring Almost Everything We Plan To Do.

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 Fact Is That We Have Been Consistent In A Predictable 60-year Commitment To National Security, While Our Friends And Former Enemies - By Intent Or Default - Have Followed Different Paths Since 1989. We Stayed Mostly The Same As They Became Hypopowers That, To Take A Small Example, Would And Could Do Nothing Should A Madman In Korea Wish To Kill Millions.

I Think Everybody Realizes Some Things Went Wrong In The Middle East And That Most Of The Terrorism Is Emanating From That Area.

It's Radical Islamic Terrorism. And Yet, When You See The Last Eight Years, Something's Gone Wrong To Call It Violent Extremism Or Man-caused Disasters. It Would Be As If We Were Looking At [adolf] Hitler In The 1930s. And We Were Afraid To Say That He Was A Nazi.