Thanks for the reply. Hard to read the Sun these days as, even for subscribers like me, relentless advertising blocks access unless you go through the whole 2 factor authorization faff. I don't have time for that, so I usually don't read the Sun and will probably cancel my subscription.
The baby and bathwater issue is always tricky but the system clearly needs a shock, and an existential threat does get the attention even of resistance bureaucrats. I don't think there are many Rs left for whom Reagan remains the cynosure of policy rectitude. I am from that generation but Reaganism is not a growth industry.
I agree Vance should not go after the WSJ on this since the difference between what he said and what they said he said does not seem all that great. Perhaps he thinks he has a tightrope walk to do between the Trump coalition winds on both sides of his high wire act. In any case, this account seems to me to downplay the importance of what Vance did do in that speech. It electrified and stunned the crowd, it seems to me, with a wake-up call to the real internal dangers European civilization faces. It also seems it was such a clear message from the New World to the Old. America doing what America does best (even though we have our own struggles against the same forces of erosion).
I'm going to save this one. "President Trump may take a look at the situation and conclude the one 'unnecessarily deployed overseas' during the past week was Vice President Vance."
Ira needs to read James Piereson's article in the latest New Criterion. He's living in the past as regards uncle NED.
I did read both of Piereson's two articles about NED. My view of it is here: https://www.nysun.com/article/save-reagans-favorite-government-agency-from-doge
Thanks for the reply. Hard to read the Sun these days as, even for subscribers like me, relentless advertising blocks access unless you go through the whole 2 factor authorization faff. I don't have time for that, so I usually don't read the Sun and will probably cancel my subscription.
The baby and bathwater issue is always tricky but the system clearly needs a shock, and an existential threat does get the attention even of resistance bureaucrats. I don't think there are many Rs left for whom Reagan remains the cynosure of policy rectitude. I am from that generation but Reaganism is not a growth industry.
I agree Vance should not go after the WSJ on this since the difference between what he said and what they said he said does not seem all that great. Perhaps he thinks he has a tightrope walk to do between the Trump coalition winds on both sides of his high wire act. In any case, this account seems to me to downplay the importance of what Vance did do in that speech. It electrified and stunned the crowd, it seems to me, with a wake-up call to the real internal dangers European civilization faces. It also seems it was such a clear message from the New World to the Old. America doing what America does best (even though we have our own struggles against the same forces of erosion).
I'm going to save this one. "President Trump may take a look at the situation and conclude the one 'unnecessarily deployed overseas' during the past week was Vice President Vance."