online.wsj.com - 10/9/2009
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All in. All out. Double down. Withdraw. The language of the Afghanistan debate is stark, as seem the choices. But at least the debate has begun, forced by the blunt recent comments of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It is overdue. At the very least, less than a full airing of all the facts, realities, ...
online.wsj.com - 10/16/2009
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Here are pertinent observations from two accomplished political
veterans at a forum Tuesday night at Harvard's John...
F. Kennedy School of Government. The question, from David Gergen, was what advice the panelists, former Reagan advisor Ken Duberstein ...
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Peggy Noonan: There Is No New Frontier
online.wsj.com - 10/2/2009
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When William Safire died the other day, we
lost one of the Elders of journalism and the...
argumentative arts. We've been losing a lot of them lately: Walter Cronkite, Bob Novak, Don Hewitt, Irving Kristol. "The stars seem to be going out one by one," ...
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Peggy Noonan: Keeping America Safe From the Ranters
mudvillegazette.com - 10/12/2009
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Talking point: al-Qaeda is in Pakistan . And
we spend $30 in Afghanistan for every dollar in...
Pakistan. That's from Fareed Zakaria's Washington Post piece , but I've heard it parroted on the TeeVee News several times today - along with the statement - delivered straight-faced - that ...
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The other side of the mountain (part one)
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... “Which gets us to the commander in chief, who directs the secretary of defense, who runs the Pentagon. The president, as almost all have noted—and for once, almost all are correct—has not distinguished himself in this matter. Afghanistan is a necessary war or not, we’ll see. He famously talked to Gen. McChrystal only once in the latter’s first 70 days in Afghanistan. He is meeting with advisers, considering options. Would that he’d begun earlier. At the moment he seems a sort of anti-Lincoln . President Lincoln was early on damaged by Gen. George McClellan’s leaking to his ...
The Passion of President McCain
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... If Barack Obama were as sure of anything as McCain is of everything, there would be no need for agonizing over what conservative Peggy Noonan calls “a choice between two hells”: ...
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