Quote du Jour

“The endurance of the enemy.”

– National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy upon being asked what most surprised him about the Vietnam War

“An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it.”
~ Titus Livius

Once a person gets despair out of the way, few things can slow her progress. Despair is the dividing line between those who can take impossibility in stride and those who wilt at the first sign of opp…

I sometimes wonder what use there is in trying to protect the West against fancied external threats when the signs of disintegration within are so striking.”
— George F. Kennan, Former U.S. Ambassado…