In my latest National Post column I say we should have seen chaos coming in Libya when we moved to oust Gadhafi.

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

Goethe, quoted on the flyleaf of Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy.

“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”

George Herbert on Brainy Quote (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_herbert_152910)

In BOE Report I ridicule climate alarmist and pipeline foe BC Premier John Horgan for being not just unhappy but baffled that his plan to push gas prices up so there’d be less of it worked.

“It is our lot to fail and be deluded much of the time, particularly in the fires of our youth.”

Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury: A History.