The American Spectator

My question is: why did the Russians bother fielding spies and agents at all??

To gather information? To influence US policy in pro-Russian paths?

The entire East Coast establishment, MSM, NYT, DNC and points left, and has been working might and main to expose every US secret and thwart every US interest for decades. And now the White House is controlled by today’s version of the Viet Cong.

What was left for these Russian operatives to do, exactly?
— Martin Owens
Sacramento

GETTING THE PRESIDENT’S ATTENTION
Re: Stephanie Guttman’s McChrystal’s Secret Rebellion:

Stephanie Gutmann asks:

“Why would a West Point and Kennedy School of Government graduate who runs eight miles a day, sleeps four hours and is smart as a whip ever do something so dumb as to talk to a Rolling Stone reporter?”

President Obama is a busy man. With all the crises that the President has managed from day one, he rarely had time to spare for the commander of NATO and US Forces in Afghanistan.

Perhaps McChrystal’s subordinates thought that if they succeeded in getting the President’s attention, his chief of staff would make time for the General on the busy White House schedule.
— Dan Martin
Pittsburgh

This is so stupid in its thinking. Can you recall how most Americans were glued to the family television sets watching our airplanes drop those “smart” bombs during Desert Storm?

Was that not the beginning of a thought process where we could “surgically” kill the enemy, leaving the “innocent civilians” free to rebuild?

Warriors were to be transformed into “cops” using pinpoint force against those “bad guys” we found.

Of course here at home, on American soil, most local police departments, in their recruiting televison advertisements, highlight their SWAT teams … cops who dress and behave like military people advancing on the enemy.

White is black and black is white! Cognitive dissonance is in play, methinks.
— RJ
New Mexico

TRAGEDIES AND STATISTICS
Re: Ben Stein’s Overreactions to Disaster: