A long piece by Robert Tracinski on the inevitability of war:

We can’t avoid this war, because Iran won’t let us avoid it. That is the real analogy to the 1930s. Hitler came to power espousing the goal of German world domination, openly promising to conquer neighboring nations through military force and to persecute and murder Europe’s Jews. He predicted that the free nations of the world would be too weak

I just got a review copy of the book “Debunking 9/11 Myths,” which is a book version of the in-depth investigation that Popular Mechanics did. It’s in a similar format to Snopes, with a “Claim” (the myth), then a “Fact,” in which the evidence and physics are brought to bear to debunk it. It looks like an interesting book, from an engineering standpoint. What the book doesn’t explain, of course, is why (besides Bush derangement) people buy into these nutty conspiracy theories. I hope that PM sends a copy to Cynthia McKinney, though she doesn’t seem like the type that reads books, particularly factual ones.

…of killing children.

“It is our love of these innocents that endangers them. If we did not care if children died, they would be in little danger.”

“That cannot be,” she replies in anger.

“But it is so,” I contest. “If we did not care if our children died, they would not be targets. There would be no reason to target them, because we would not be moved by their deaths.

“If we did not care if their children died,” I add, “there would be no reason to clutter military emplacements with their presence. If it were not that we are horrified by the deaths of children, the enemy’s children would be clear of all places of battle — because they are, except for the fact that we love them, a hindrance.”

She bites her lip.

“Of course, we cannot cut out our hearts,” I tell her. “Nor should we — as we wish to remain men, and good men, rather than monsters. Yet it is our love that is the chief danger to the innocent now — to our own innocents, and theirs also.”

Gerard Baker says that it’s counterproductive to blame ourselves:

Events such as yesterday

Gerard Baker says that it’s counterproductive to blame ourselves:

Events such as yesterday