The November elections will not be a referendum on Iraq. The growing stability there — thanks to the troop surge that Democrats fought tooth and nail — slammed that door in their faces. Identity politics (woman, minority, religion, etc.) won’t decide the election, either. Ultimately, the politics of personality will give way to the issues […]

Now, this is a heartwarming story. “It’s Christmastime at Camp Taji, and Army Staff Sgt. Jared DeAtley looks traumatized, but not by the war outside the camp or holidays away from home. It’s only 9 a.m., and the mail warehouse already has called. ‘Come get the mail,‘ said DeAtley, who’s from Fleming County, Ky., shaking […]

By the way, what happened to all those front-page stories with those retired Clinton generals about how we couldn’t win this war? Where are those retired Clinton generals? I haven’t seen ’em on TV in a while, have you? Shouldn’t they be brought back on TV by the Media, and asked, “What do you mean, […]

Let’s draw some analogies, shall we? Terrorism is spreading, just as communism did. They’re not spreading exactly the same way, but Islamofascism is on the move just as the communists were, in Africa, in Asia, in Iran (which is a non-Arab state), in the Philippines, and within our own country — and I think, actually, […]

Pete Wehner, who used to work in the White House (he was on Karl Rove’s staff, number one behind Rove) has a piece today on Huckabee. It’s at National Review Online, and he also wants to take issue with the first two paragraphs of Huckabee’s essay that he wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the […]