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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor.

After Pearl Harbor, we waged a war against stupid aggression and genocide. One would think that when peace broke out, the world would have learned its lesson. However, we have been embroiled in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. The United States has successfully engineered the demise of Muammar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Surely that would make the world safer. Unfortunately, it hasn’t.

While all of this is going on, I saw Ben Stein on television the other day, and he reported watching one of his grandchildren play a game called Zombies. It occurred to him that the political establishment is zombie-like. They can see a problem and walk right past it without ever noticing it or trying to solve it. At the present moment, Ahmadinejad (“Ringo”) and the fruitcake in North Korea are doing a lot of saber rattling. We are, again, stuck in a quagmire of uncertainty. For my money, I think we need to get out of the Middle East, ASAP. Korea will have to wait.

Peace,
Donald M. Heavrin