Marc Thiessen defends the “al-Qaeda 7″ attack ad by likening the attorneys who defended detainees in Guantanamo, as well as José Pedilla, John Walker Lindh, and others to “mob lawyers” and “drug cartel lawyers.”
Setting aside the obvious point that even mobsters and drug lords deserve representation in a court of law, we should not get [...]

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The big news in bated breath anticipation of outcomes hopefully serving American geopolitical interests is the Iraqi election on May 7. The stakes are high, whoa-ho-ho!, so CNN sits down with its resident foreign expert guy, Fareed Zakaria. The main question on every Americans mind is, Will the trillions of dollars spent and thousands of [...]

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Karl Rove has learned his lesson:
Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and he blames himself for not countering the narrative that “Bush lied,” calling it “one of the [...]

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Frank Rich gets to the heart of magical thinking that guides American foreign policy:
Americans want our country to be secure. Most want Obama to succeed. And so we hope that we won’t get bogged down in Afghanistan while our adversaries regroup elsewhere, that the casualties and costs can be contained, that the small, primitive Afghan [...]

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At the Wall Street Journal, conservative opposition to the war in Afghanistan is just part of the “out of power” grudge against a President of the opposite party. Here’s the argument:
The weakening public support for continuing the counterinsurgency campaign is not surprising. In the midst of an economic crisis people are tempted to draw inward. [...]

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