Free Republic

From the Battle of Plattsburgh edition of Lake Champlain Weekly First, my enormous thanks to the owners and editor of Lake Champlain Weekly for allowing me, an enemy national, to write this column at a time of war between our countries. This respect for freedom of speech is part of our shared Anglo-American heritage, which your country, to its great credit, has written into its Constitution. As my regular readers will know, I am a great admirer of America, and though your country is less than 40 years old, I am sure it has a great future ahead of it....

The main mantra of the Democrats heading into the 2004 Presidential Election is that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq. The claim is that we would be better off if our effort were “multinational,” which means giving a veto power to national “friends” like the French. But a brief look at the history of World War II demonstrates that this claim is false. This is one more instance when I want to jump through the TV screen, grab the reporters by the throat and demand of them, “Don’t you know where to find a library? Can’t you...