David Brooks is worried about our lack of zeal for national greatness:
I’d say that in America today some of the little loves are fraying, and big love is almost a foreign language. Almost nobody speaks about the American project in the same ardent tones that were once routine.
Here’s an absolutely extraordinary letter from a reader:
We have it on highest authority: the recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan marks “an important milestone.” So the president of the United States has declared, with that claim duly echoed and implicitly endorsed by media commentary—the New York Times reporting, for example, that Mansour’s death leaves the Taliban leadership “shocked” and “shaken.”
But a question remains: A milestone toward what exactly?
Michael Brendan Dougherty sums up why Trump can’t be trusted to conduct foreign policy:
But there aren’t strong reasons to believe Trump is any better than Clinton when it comes to making peace. In fact, he may be much worse.
Submitted by Marc Faber via GloomBoomDoom.com,
WHEN A POLITICAL SYSTEM AUTHORIZES PLUNDER AND WHEN A MORAL CODE ENCOURAGES IT, MORAL DEGENERATION FOLLOWS SWIFTLY AFTER.
Montesquieu opined already in the 18th century that, “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”