There Are Perfectly Appropriate Circumstances To Unmask

It Was An Echo Of Director Comey's Testimony That Trump Showed No Curiosity, No Interest, No Concern Over The Russia Hack. The Only Element Of It That Concerned Him Was How It Might Impact Him Personally. That Says, I Think, A Lot About Where The President Is Coming From, But It Was Quite Jarring Given This Was An Attack On Our Democracy By A Foreign Power.

The Gulf States Are Happy For Us To Fight And Die. That's Good For Everybody, But The Americans Fighting And Dying.

I Think Barack Obama Has The Overall Right Strategy And He's Been Right To Resist Bringing In Massive Numbers Of American Troops. The Iraqis Would Love To Have Americans Die For Iraq And The Syrians Would Love To Have Americans Die For Syria.

Terrific. Now To Win A Larceny Trial All We Have To Do Is Prove How The Universe Ends.

Whether We Kept A Certain Number Of Troops There Or Pulled Out Completely, If We Can't Get The Maliki Government To Include A Large Segment Of Its Population In Its Security Forces And Protection, Then The Small Amount Of Forces That We Would Have Left There Might Have Slowed This Day, But They Wouldn't Have Prevented It Altogether.