The American Spectator

Churchill and India : /p> p>My friend George Neumayr seems to accept the media’s doomsday assumption that India and Pakistan will nuke it out. He also accepts the assumption that India has been de-westernized, claiming that “No one who knows India today” can dispute Churchill’s wisdom, etc. I never dispute Churchill’s wisdom, but I also know that wisdom expressed in the 1930s, however much we romanticize it, does not necessarily apply to today. India’s done so much westernizing lately that many conservative foreign policy mavens consider playing the India card against China. As for the doomsday scenario, it seems already to be de-escalating; pray that it continues. George seldom believes the media, but he may have swallowed this time. br> — K. E. Grubbs Jr. /p> p> NOT MY DEPARTMENT br> Having read Jed Babbin’s column ” Homeland Security Circus ,” I think it might be interesting to think back to Mrs. Thatcher in the days of her glory when it was suggested to her to create a new department. /p>

It was reported that she “chewed on” the proposer by saying “I told you to deal with the problem, not to make it worse. Once we have an entire government department whose size, pay, and perquisites depend upon the existence of the problem, we’ll never get rid of it.”

p>If the bigger government personages of a Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt are “hell bent for leather” in forming G.W.’s department, something has got to be wrong.