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In response to President Obama's West Point lecture on Afghanistan, a lecture back....
Sir, a rhetoric teacher or debate judge might grade your remarks this way: well delivered but poorly reasoned.
You have embraced precisely the sort of surge for Afghanistan that you vehemently opposed for Iraq. Yet, as on March 17 when you authorized 21,000 additional troops after (you said) "a careful policy review," you failed to deploy the word victory -- victory being what the surge achieved in Iraq. At West Point, you used "a successful conclusion" "a responsible end," even (omigosh!) "defeat." If you truly...
Dance With the Partner You Came With
In this country NOBODY has to be poor who doesn't want to be. It's true enough that some can't seem to catch a break. It's just as true that there are those who would rather be poor than work. Some are content with whatever they consider to be enough, and still others live like grasshoppers with never a thought for the morrow. Some folks seem to have that Midas touch and wealth is easily come by, while others struggle just to get by. Others, through either mismanagment or misfortune do lose that which...