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Posted at 5:57pm on Dec. 6, 2005 Peace With Honor: A Modest Proposal
By JayReding
Howard Dean believes that we cannot win the war in Iraq - that we must immediately pull out the majority of our forces in the theatre of operations and redeploy the rest elsewhere. He argues, as Rep. Murtha does, that we should have a force available "over the horizon" to deal with the threat of al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq. However, it is quite clear that such a force could not ever act as an effective anti-terrorist force, and such a mission would be all but impossible.
For the sake of argument, let us assume that Dean is right and that the war in Iraq is not a war that we can win. Our current efforts are futile, and we must redeploy our troops away from Iraq and focus our attentions elsewhere.
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Posted at 12:12pm on Nov. 3, 2005 City of Light, Cités Of Darkness
By JayReding
The great and brilliant sociologist James Q. Wilson noted that communities that tolerated small crimes, petty theft, vandalism, and the like were often quickly finding themselves facing worse crimes - and indeed, the last 7 nights of increasingly violent riots in Paris prove his point. The culture of lawlessness in France is paying out its terrible dividend as the ethnic ghettoes of the Parisian banlieues explode into anarchy. The violence in France reminds us that those nations which do not or cannot defend their culture will surely lose it...
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Posted at 12:30pm on Sep. 22, 2005 A Time To Stand
By JayReding
Bumped up front by Erick.
The Republican Party has always had the reputation of being the party of smaller government - yet in the years where GOP has control of the White House, the Senate, and the House, non-defense discretionary spending has skyrocketed. The Bush Administration's single biggest flaw in terms of domestic policy has been its utter unwillingness to control the rate of growth in government. Bush's tax cuts have helped grow the economy, but the rate of spending - especially the massive fiscal burden of the new Medicare prescription drug entitlement - threaten the fiscal future of this country.
Moreover, they hurt the future of the Republican Party. The three most basic tenets of the GOP since the Reagan Revolution have been 1) rolling back the size and intrusiveness of government, 2) defending the institution of the American family and American civic culture, and 3) a strong national defense. There are tensions between those goals, but they represent the core values of our party, broad principles which all Republicans agree on and aspire to. President Bush is resolute on the third, strong on the second, but has abandoned the first.
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Posted at 5:03pm on May 16, 2005 Who Watches The Watchers?
By JayReding
Promoted from Diaries.
The Newsweek Qur'an descration story debacle highlights a problem with the mainstream media today. Newsweek's story was based on heresay an innuendo and was clearly published without consideration of the effect it would have. Newsweek is clearly guilty of shoddy journalism as Scott Johnson of Powerline makes clear.
Beyond that, the Newsweek incident should cause one to question whether or not we truly have an independent press in this country. It's one thing to be free of government interference, it's another thing to have a press that is slavishly adherent to a certain ideological view.
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