In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.