Is this the effect of the blizzard?

Maybe it was the blizzard and being cooped up in my house for a couple of days, but, strangely, Monday’s Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed with which I actually agreed. Mark Helprin, who is quite conservative, wrote about “Our Blindness”. He inveighed against:

• The administration’s belief in nation building. We don’t have anywhere near the number of troops in Iraq and that country was not completely whipped as were Germany and Japan in WWII.
• The very, very slow start of Homeland Security.
• The lack of any policy for dealing with the rise of China as a world power.

Sounds like three rather important issues for us to consider.

He also raises the question of why we assume that a democracy is incapable of supporting terrorism and he points out that we are forcing our naval strength to its lowest level since the 1930s. Hmm!