National Security

Charles Krauthammer recently wrote:

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been

cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an

executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A

foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most

vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"),

and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as

"the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or

do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most

serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who

not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to,

yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the

surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable

strategic victory?

Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time

pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want

on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb. – [source]