[johnny7]

“It remains the only plausible answer--changing the culture of that area, no matter how slow and how difficult the process.”

Distilled to its essence...

[EnochPowellWasRight]

"Distilled to its essence..."

The problem is that we AREN'T trying to change the culture in the Middle East.

(cough)Islam(cough)

There are other plausible answers. We didn't try to change German and Japanese culture until AFTER we had defeated them.

[Lurker]

“It remains the only plausible answer--changing the culture of that area, no matter how slow and how difficult the process.”

It isn't the only plausible answer. What it is is a politically correct anwer.

It's also the wrong answer.

L

[Senator Goldwater]

“It remains the only plausible answer--changing the culture of that area, no matter how slow and how difficult the process.”

Distilled to its essence...

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As only the good doctor can do.

I've met him several times at Washington Nationals games at RFK. Sometimes I think he's the only sensible man left in this town.

[tarheelswamprat]

“It remains the only plausible answer--changing the culture of that area, no matter how slow and how difficult the process.” Distilled to

its essence...

Not quite.

Krauthammer, as usual, makes very good points and reasoned arguments. However, he tiptoes around and glosses over the single biggest factor in the loss of the "unipolar moment" and the chance for a lasting Pax Americana.

The "cultural factor" which has contributed most to our undoing is the pervasive culture of institutionalized treason and mindless pursuit of power and partisan advantage which has consumed our so-called "governing classes".

The deliberate, calculated evil of the decision of segments of our political establishment and their various allies such as the MSM, that the goal of regaining their own power mattered above all else, even if it meant sabotaging and betraying their own country, its duly elected leadership and even its military personnel in harms way, is what has brought us to this sorry pass.

The Iranians, the Syrians, and whichever others who wished could have indulged in their machinations and dreams of hegemony, but if the so-called "loyal opposition" factions in this country had joined with us and simply honored the tradition that "politics stops at the waters edge" in the face of foreign enemies, we would still be in Krauthammer's unipolar moment.