April 5, 2011

Stay out of it, General

David Petraeus commands the US troops in Afghanistan, and if he wishes to order them to conduct themselves in a given manner in regard to a book -- any book -- that is the commander's prerogative.General Petraeus, however, does not command the Americ...

October 10, 2010

Middle East Peace: Insoluble Doesn't Mean Unmanageable

The perennial push to solve the "'Palestinian'-Israeli problem" is predicated on a false premise: to wit, that the Arab-Jewish conflict on the territory of the former League of Nations Palestine Mandate is genuinely susceptible to resolutio...

September 22, 2010

It's about Greed, All Right -- Government Greed

A friend of mine asked a rhetorical question the other day. Caught me up short, I'll tell you. I'd never heard it put quite that way, and I had to ponder it. He asked, Why does the Left love jobs -- but hate employers? Oh, they'd never cop to it, but...

September 14, 2010

General Petraeus' Mistake

Now don't go getting your bloomers in a knot, but I think the most egregious culprit in the flap over Rev. Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Qur'an-burning project was actually none other than David Petraeus. That's hardly to suggest that the p...

September 7, 2010

The Most Disturbing Facet of Yet Another Dreary 'Peace' Conference

America has no business giving its imprimatur to a diplomatic process that countenances, and indeed endorses, ethnic cleansing as a foundation stone -- or that embraces the prospect of an eventual judenrein "Palestinian" state (let alone a ...

December 13, 2009

Tractors?

In unmistakably peace-loving Tehran, Western observers have beheld street processions of missiles conspicuously emblazoned with clearly stenciled words evoking all the charm and grace of a greeting card: "To Jerusalem."Late in the 1960s, sh...