Moreover, our taxes very substantially subsidize the production of ethanol, a fuel we are required to use by the Feds despite the fact that it is much less efficient than gasoline. In addition, the greatly increased prices for corn have brought about great hardship to people around the world who live at a subsistance level.

Ms. West, had she been writing in the dark days of 1942, would undoubtedly have counseled that we withdraw what remained of our Pacific Fleet to the Pacific Coast to protect the mainland, and would have insisted that we not invade North Africa, Sicily or Italy because the governments there were incapable of establishing democratic regimes, having been so imbued with Fascism, and as far as Hitler was concerned, she would have advised the creation of Fortress America rather than do anything so impossible as a cross-channel invasion against Hitler's Western Wall and the fanaticism of the Nazi regime.

How can ANYONE counsel the abandonment of the Afghan people, and especially their women, to the less than tender mercies of the...

Surrogates of Iran such as Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas, or customers of North Korea can mount a relatively crude nuclear warhead on a missile, drag it to our seacoast on a barge or in a small freighter, and detonate it above the atmosphere over the U.S. The electromagnetic pulse from the nuclear detonations would wipe out almost all communication--and anything dependent upon electronics. No water, power, heat, telephone, or plane, train or automotive transportation. Estimates by a Congressional Commission are that the chaos produced would bring about the deaths of NINETY PERCENT of the population within a year's time.

George Bush, despite his sometimes halting, sometimes-two-steps-back-for-every-step-forward actions, was right...

Paul, You seem more like a contemporary leftist than a libertarian when you engage in an ad hominem attack on Diana West, and when you call neo-conservatives “drooling nitwits.”

Perhaps your memory no longer contains this information, so please let me remind you that the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and either the Capitol or the White House by the third group of Islamists originated in Afghanistan, and before that other attacks on U.S. interests originated in the Sudan by UBL. I agree with you about Germany, especially considering that nation’s cowardly gestures of help in Afghanistan. We should have long ago moved those facilities to an ally that deserves our support and would welcome an important...