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It Is A Hard Thing For Intellectuals To Acknowledge Benefits From Their Rich Moral Inferiors Who Never So Intended It.

In Iraq #1 We Stayed Within U.n. Mandates, Limited Our Response, Went Home After Kuwait Was Freed - And Were Censured For Allowing Shiites And Kurds To Be Butchered And Not Going To Baghdad When The Road Was Open And The Dictator Tottering. In Iraq #2 We Removed The Tyrant At Less Cost Than The Liberation Of Kuwait During The Earlier War, Stayed On To Ensure Freedom And Fair Representation For Various Groups - And Are Being Castigated For Either Using Too Little Force To Ensure Needed Order Or Too Much Power That Stifles Indigenous Aspirations And Turns Popular Opinion Against Us.

The President Who Is Most Slandered As Hitler Will Probably Prove To Be The Most Zealous Advocate Of Democratic Government Abroad, The Staunchest Friend Of Beleaguered Israel, And The Greatest Promoter Of Global Individual Freedom In Our Recent Memory.

The Easily Ridiculed, So-so Status Quo Often Hides Herculean Efforts By Those Whom We Take For Granted, And Who, Working In The Shadows, Guarantee Civilization Instead Of Chaos.

If The Democrats Feel They Have Lost The Public's Confidence In Their Stewardship Of National Security, Then The Threat Of Iran Offers A Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Or John Kerry An Opportunity To Get Out Front Now And Pledge Support For A United Effort - Attacking Bush From The Right About Too Tepid A Stance Rather From The Predictable Left That We Are 'hegemonic' And 'imperialistic' Every Time We Use Force Abroad.