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I know exactly what you mean, wanting to highlight your favorites but not being able to choose. But I choose this short paragraph because it is so perfectly stated.

Expecting the U.N. to curb the chaos in Iraq is understandable, but I think delusional. It has no real record of nation-building — but a long history of watching millions die and rot from the Balkans to Rwanda. True, if a Western country finally takes a strong stance, then the U.N. tags along well enough and can provide cosmetic legitimacy so dear to influential elites in Europe and America; but it never by itself really solves the problem.

Our own McClellans and contemporary Copperheads deride the president as a miserable failure cheek by jowl with major newspapers.

I doubt if Lincoln's contemporaries wanted a Confederate victory. They just wanted to replace Lincoln with one of their own. I seriously doubt that they wanted to surrender the young country's sovereignty to internationalists or foreign ideologies.

Not so today. President Bush's critics do want to surrender our sovereignty and place us under U.N. (or similar) auspices and its "sizable contingents of bureaucrats and profiteers." Most of them do not hate America they see it as best for America, and the world's peoples.

The more perceived "failures" the better for them. This WOT is their last big chance to impose their future on America.

This war within a war is as important to our future as the WOT itself. And like the war to defend against terrorism there is no peaceful solution. The enemy won't permit it IMO.

Put on your stovepipe hat, Mr. President. Pay attention to the war here. Do whatever is necessary. This is about whose America survives the WOT.

In a newspaper this week, I scanned news on Iraq and then flipped to a column written for the American homeowner. It really was a humane and thoughtful piece about saving toads — and why pool owners must leave floating objects in their chlorinated water to ensure that any unfortunate toad that scrambled in for a late-night drink might find a life raft and thus not drown in such an antiseptic soup. Such concern at a time of war for garden amphibians perhaps reflects well on our morality, but right now primordial and vicious al Qaedists, Baathists, and Islamic-fascists are not worrying about the drowning of toads in their suburban swimming pools.

I can't help but shake my head at our self-importance and lack of convictions. I myself care a great deal more about Iraq, than I do "Bennifer". :) But, how many Americans have never heard of Amb. Bremer, but can tell you in an up-to-the-minute report, if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back together? It is exasperating!

I think this was my favorite.....;o)

More people, remember, fried in France this August while its social utopians snoozed at the beach than all those lost in Kabul and Baghdad together. I think an American pilot who flew over the peaks of Afghanistan or a Marine colonel now patrolling in Iraq was far more likely to ensure that his aged mother back home lives under humane conditions than was a Frenchman this summer on his month-long vacation on the Mediterranean coast. So remember, this August Americans lost 100 brave soldiers fighting selflessly for the liberty of others while thousands of Frenchmen perished through their children's neglect and self-absorption.