“Those who decide that all peaceful means that international law makes available are exhausted assume a grave responsibility before God, their conscience and history,” – Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, March 20, 2003 I’m finding it harder and harder to argue against the fact that we need to kill the rabid dog that is ISIS. I can’t stand [Read More...]

MEGYN KELLY: In your op-ed, you write as follows: ‘Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.’ But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well, sir. You said there were no doubts that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass [Read More...]

Repentance is good for the soul. Thing is, Andrew Bacevich, Pat Buchanan, St. John Paul and Benedict are not very accurately described as liberals.  But he means well and it’s good to see. [Read more...]

Cheney:  Obama “so wrong about so much” For instance, his failure to prosecute Dick “Other Priorities” Cheney for war crimes. File under: Arsonist offers critical remarks on fire department. [Read more...]

“The Americans in their intercourse with strangers appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. The most slender compliment is acceptable to them; the most exalted seldom contents them; they unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting [Read More...]

“proportion between the possible positive consequences and the sure negative effect of the conflict was not guaranteed. On the contrary, it seems clear that the negative consequences will be greater than anything positive that might be obtained.” Cardinal Ratzinger, April 2003 Yup. “The irony is painfully acute. Eleven years ago, in response to a terrorist [Read More...]

A reader writes: The article by George Weigel was indeed very troubling, but it’s not the last time that a major Catholic thinker has openly broken with — or ignored — the Church’s teaching, in order to advocate for war. In February 2014, Robert George co-wrote a piece for National Review in which he advocated [Read More...]