Column One: Postcards from Saigon

Caroline Glick, who writes this column for the Jerusalem Post, continues to be one of my favorite writers, and may be Israel's answer to Bill Safire (I miss his column). In the column linked below, she does a lot better job of explaining why Iraq is importnat today than the Fox crowd will ever do (forget about the NY Times and other liberal or leftist tomes), albeit tying it all back to an Israeli's point of view (it is the Jerusalem Post, after all). You can agree or disagree as to the how we got there, but Iraq today is important, very important, to the future of the civilized world, and pithy slogans and defeatist cries without any evaluation of the consequences and manner of our phasedown and withdrawal will do nobody any good except our enemies.

And besides, Ms. Glick doesn't like Condi Rice and the State Department, and for that itself she gets a gold star. In Ms. Glick's words, we need more diplomats who pursue diplomacy to advance American interests, and fewer who believe diplomacy is just about making meaningless declarations and entering into empty agreements that are ignored by all.

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