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...referred to commonly as “the surge”—a tactic that has thus far dramatically lowered number of casualties—this troop escalation has proven effective, and McCain’s early criticism of Donald Rumsfeld’s tactics was correct. Last year, American casualties declined in Dec. 2007 to 23 from a peak of 121 in May 2007. This 81 percent decrease over eight months marks the lowest number of casualties since...
...question, it seems to me, is not really whether this TIME article is correct in its severe judgment on the state of French culture. My opinion is that it probably is correct, and that in fact many artists from my country are a bit provincial, a little stagnant, unbearably narcissistic and inward-looking. It is not bad to see this denounced. But this bizarre text, the more I think about it, seems less and less a survey of France and more and more a savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America...
...Kinsley mentioned the Americans who strongly oppose illegal immigration. How about the Americans who want to prove their open-mindedness by ignoring this problem? If I can understand that immigrants must be processed and checked for disease, then certainly U.S.-born citizens can too. Anyone can flaunt his politically correct chutzpah, but it doesn't change the fact that a country without borders isn't really a country...
...Jeninne Lee-St. John's story on Internet weddings, Anna Post says the best thing we get out of technology is staying connected to the people we care about [Dec. 10]. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought a real, traditional wedding was a very good occasion for not only staying connected to but also dancing with and hugging all the people we care about. I know if my groom couldn't make it to our own wedding, I would turn him down and the webcam...
...agree with the view, espoused by some of my American colleagues, that this regime is dangerous for Russia only: the export of corruption, merged with the state machinery, is no better than the export of revolution. And that is why I believe that Putin was the correct choice as Person of the Year - because no other person this year made a deeper or more fateful impact on history, present and yet to come...