Democracy Is Not About Protests.

While There Is An Attempt By The Trump People To Say That California Isn't Really America. California Certainly Seems Like America To Me.

I Am A Very Conservative Person. And There Are A Lot Of Things That Donald Trump's Government Or Administration Is Doing That I Might Agree With. The Point Is We Have To Defend The Rules Of The Game. And One Of The Things That Has Empowered Donald Trump Is That Not Enough People Are Serious Enough About Defending The Rules Of The Game, Maybe Because They Don't Understand How Endangered Those Rules Are.

An American-led Overthrow Of Saddam Hussein - And The Replacement Of The Radical Baathist Dictatorship With A New Government More Closely Aligned With The United States Would Put America More Wholly In Charge Of The Region Than Any Power Since The Ottomans, Or Maybe Even The Romans.

If We Say Something Often Enough, We Come To Believe It. We Don't Usually Delude Others Until After We Have First Deluded Ourselves.

To Balance China, The Democracies Will Need New Friends - And India With Its Fast-growing Economy, Youthful Population, And Democratic Politics Seems The Obvious Candidate.