Boy, I hope the dinner these three are having on Thursday proves to be fruitful. It’s not often that I wish to be an insect, but I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear what it said. I must admit, I have wondered why it is such a political conundrum regarding…

Sounds like there wasn’t a plan to me: Finally, Richard Clarke himself debunked the story in a background briefing with reporters. He said he presented two things to the incoming Bush administration: “One, what the existing strategy had been. And two, a series of issues – like aiding the Northern Alliance, changing Pakistan policy, changing…

She’s not the only one calling him that! And I’m not sure this is the best defense: “What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years,” Rice added. Is she trying to say that they didn’t do anything? Being “as aggressive” as…

At least Victor Davis Hanson thinks so: Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves and their leftist “anti-fascist” appeasers in the West…

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