[GMMAC]

To me, there's no better conservative Catholic writer in North America today than David Warren.
Unfortunately, he gets relatively little broad exposure.

His website, davidwarrenonline, is an absolute treasure trove of gems like the one above.

[GMMAC]

PING!

[Brilliant]

This is what happens when you send a politician to do a man's job.

[My2Cents]

Great comments. Baker's kind of "realism" in foreign policy is what brought us 9/11 in the first place.

[Brilliant]

Baker would have demanded diplomatic negotiations with Hitler on the eve of D-Day.

[My2Cents]

It is true that our problems there will be over, if we withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, perhaps the advantage of doing so would be, to show the Western electorate what comes next.

If the '06 elections were about Americans' exhaustion over Iraq, as the media has told us, then perhaps we should give them what they want...withdraw into ourselves, and then wait for the next big terrorist strike. Maybe the next one will take out a few hundred thousand people. And maybe then the American voter will be motivated to ignore the nihilists on the left and will desire to truly drain the swamp in the Middle East.

[Clive]

See "Peace For Our Time" posted 2006/07/31/

I said in #3 to that posting:

"I posted this bit of history because I have a really bad feeling between my shoulder blades as to what may be about to happen in the Middle East."

[headsonpikes]

He is one of the best writers of any faith, imo.

This line bears a keen truth:

"Even those who recall what happened on Sept. 11th, 2001, have persuaded themselves that we are only a target because, after that fact, the U.S. went into Afghanistan and Iraq."

He nails the cognitive dissonance of the left very well.

[ravingnutter]

James Baker's Stacked Commission

[353FMG]

Why should Baker not appease when he is in the Saudi pocket?

[uncbob]

Baker Meese Eagleberger
ALL high level cabinet members in GOP administrations

And Baker is a friend of the Bush family

Nothing like living in an alternate universe

[uncbob]

My thought was: if Churchill had only come to power in 1937, Chamberlain would have been installed to replace him in 1940.

War wasn't even over in 45 but obviously won when the British booted Winston out and brought the socialists back in

Vooters want the promised government free goodies

We are on the same path

[Ancesthntr]

James Baker is a partner in Baker Botts, LLC. This firm represents the Saudi government as the lead defense counsel in the $1 Trillion of lawsuits stemming from the 9/11 disaster.

Baker Botts didn't get this job for no reason - among many, the fact is that James Baker has worked for the Saudis and other Arabs for decades...and not for free.

What we have here is a simple case of James Baker knowing where his bread has been, is and will be buttered. This report could just about have been written by the Saudi government. For example, WTF does Israel and its conflict with the "Palestinian People" (whoever they are) have to do with Iraq, some 500 miles away? NOTHING!! The Sunnis and Shiites have been butchering each other for over 1,000 years, but this is (according to the gospel of Jimmy B.) the fault of the JOOOOOOOS in charge of the "Zionist Entity."

Jimmy, eff you and the horse you rode in on. If you were on fire, I wouldn't pi$$ on you to douse the flames. Same goes for the black-hearted, senile old peanut farmer.

[Incorrigible]