"A good leader never walks by a mistake."

An “oft-repeated maxim” of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, according to Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Stormin’ Norman

“In Mr. Arcand’s film [Les Invasions Barbares], there are many suggestions that, like Rome, our culture has become decadent enough to be vulnerable to barbarians, however unworthy they may be. Most barbarians have the vigour of their appetites, if not the courage of their convictions. The barbarians who savaged America on 9/11 had the courage of their convictions, too."

William Thorsell in Globe & Mail August 30, 2004

In my latest National Post column I say we must weigh the risks of confronting Vladimir Putin's Russia against the risks of letting it get away with murder, figuratively and now perhaps literally as well.

We should "learn from history, not be obsessed by it"

Queen Elizabeth II in a speech in Berlin on Nov. 2, 2004, quoted in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 3 2004

In my latest National Post column I argue that the time to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is now, and always was.