Finding life in the Bush Doctrine
Normon Podhoretz writes a lengthy defense of the doctrine and answers its many critics.
Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats
Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now. It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Well worth reading. He ends up being quite apologetic for the foreign policy which has us chasing world opinion and sacrificing US servicemen and women for the sake of a majority-rule, Islam-constrained government in Iraq that castigates Israel for wanting to exist -- I guess he would call these "prudential tactics." Pity he doesn't really touch on one more criticism (which admittedly is not mainstream): the US government should simply project an absolute defense for the individual rights of US citizens by defeating their enemies as quickly as possible.
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