Tuesday's Victory Was Big. But It Did

In The Liberal Remake Of 'casablanca,' The Police Captain Comes Upon The Scene Of The Shooting And Orders His Men To 'round Up The Usual Weapons.' It's Always The Weapon And Never The Shooter.

Guerrilla War Is A Test Of Wills. Obama's Actual Objectives - Rollback In Iraq, Containment In Syria - Are Not Unreasonable. But They Require Commitment And Determination. In Other Words, Will. You Can't Just Make One Speech Declaring War, Then Disappear And Go Fundraising.

Washington Is The Only Place In The World Where A Gaffe Is When A Politician Accidently Speaks The Truth.

Every Two Years The American Politics Industry Fills The Airwaves With The Most Virulent, Scurrilous, Wall-to-wall Character Assassination Of Nearly Every Political Practitioner In The Country - And Then Declares Itself Puzzled That America Has Lost Trust In Its Politicians.

Truman Left In The Middle Of An Unpopular War, A War Of Choice. Truman Didn't Have To Go Into South Korea. And He Was Reviled And Ridiculed For The Stalemate That Resulted. Now, He's Seen As One Of The Great Presidents Of The 20th Century.