Nobody Stands Taller Than Those Willing To

In Dealing With Syria's Dictator...only Force Counts. No Cease-fire Was Attainable In Lebanon Until The 16-inch Guns Of The Battleship New Jersey Started Shelling Syria's Proxies; Suddenly, Sweet Reason Prevailed In Damascus.

I Was Standing Next To A Famed Geo-politician When The First News Of The Argentine Attack [on The Faulkland Islands] Was Received, And Heard Him Muse Incredulously: "an Old-fashioned Naval Battle. A War Between Two Civilized Nations, Perhaps With Even A Declaration Of War, And Later A Peace Conference. Wow." No Hostages, No Nukes, No Ideologies, No Religious Fanaticism; Just A Fair-and-square War Over National Interests - Hard To Believe, In This Day And Age.

The New, Old, And Constantly Changing Language Of Politics Is A Lexicon Of Conflict And Drama?ridicule And Reproach?pleading And Persuasion.

English Is A Stretch Language; One Size Fits All.

At A Certain Point, What People Mean When They Use A Word Becomes Its Meaning.