"If named the Liberal Party's leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become [Canada's] next prime minister." Read all about it over at the Christian Science Monitor, if you like. Why should you care? Well, this is the same Michael Ignatieff who...

Via Daniel McCarthy, an excerpt from The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft, by Russell Kirk and James McClellan (1967): War, Taft perceived, was the enemy of constitution, liberty, economic security, and the cake of custom. His natural conservatism made him a man...

[O]ur leaders may be so demoralized that we could just surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the realists and the antisemites desire. That's Michael Ledeen over at The Corner. Now, using the standard neocon definition of anti-Semite (anyone, Gentile or Jew, who...

Jonathan Schwarz examines the sunny side of Iraq-Vietnam analogies, and Leon Hadar measures Israel's window of opportunity for attacking Iran.

Several people have written to inform me that Charlie Rangel's draft proposal is merely a ploy to make war supporters squirm. Well, if it's a ploy, then Rangel is playing with fire, because there are plenty of liberals out there who have rushed to defend his proposal...

Charlie Rangel and other liberals want a return to the draft on the basis of some ahistorical notion that it will prevent future wars. (See here for some background on all the wars conscription hasn't prevented.) For one thing, as Scott points out below, no draft...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has died. He was 94. I know our readers have a wide range of views regarding his economics, but Friedman deserves the thanks of everyone opposed to conscription. A long-time opponent of the draft, Friedman served on the...

In light of House Democrats' choice of Rep. Steny Hoyer over Rep. John Murtha for House majority leader, Robert Scheer's Tuesday column (in today's Viewpoints section) is worth another look. Murtha is far from perfect – in fact, he's been a reliable friend to the...

Over at The Corner, we learn today that: *Jonah Goldberg has lost whatever mojo he once imagined he had. *Ditto for Bush and Olmert. *The admission of defeat in Iraq may lead to the end of belligerent American exceptionalism.

People send us all sorts of byzantine plans about what to do in Iraq – a change in tactics, a redeployment, a gradual draw-down, etc. – but there's no way out but out.