Commend Condoleezza

In this week's column, the always clear-headed Victor Davis Hanson observes:

After eight years of appeasement that saw repeated attacks on Americans, Pakistani acquisition of nuclear weapons under Dr. Khan, and Osama's 1998 declaration of war against every American, we are suddenly grilling, of all people, Condoleezza Rice -- one of the few key advisers most to be credited for insisting on using our military, rather than the local DA, to defeat these fanatics.

Over the last two years, each time a U.S. senator in panicked and wild-eyed passion screamed that we could not win in Afghanistan, she proved resolute and confident. On every occasion that an ex-general, a dissatisfied bureaucrat, or a wannabe journalist-strategist pontificated about what the United States could not do, she was unwavering in her determination to take the war to rogue regimes in the Middle East with a history of hostility against Americans and a record of providing easy sanctuary for terrorists. This present charade would be like holding public hearings on the eve of the 1944 election about the breakdown of intelligence and missed opportunities before Pearl Harbor -- and then blaming Harry Hopkins and Secretary Stimson for laxity even while the country was in the very midst of a two-front war.

If you would like to commend Dr. Rice for yesterday's dignified and professional performance in the face of partisan, rude, smug, harassing questioning by Democrat poseurs, you can contact her by fax at (202) 456-2883 or by phone at (202) 456-9491.

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