W.W.J.G.D

What Would Joe Gringo Do?

Appoint Victor Davis Hanson Secretary of State in 2008.

VDH and Krauthammer on the same day is always a good thing.

Read Mr. Hanson's article "Rocks and Ripples" on playing it smart in the ME.

Excerpt:

We should praise the relatively free voting that ushered in Hamas, insist that they institutionalize the process that brought them to power, but under no circumstances give such terrorists any American money as long as they pledge to destroy Israel.

Allowing the autocratic Mr. Mubarak to go his own way without any more American largess may well empower the Muslim Brotherhood. Fine. Let the zealots talk all they want about bringing corruption-free government to Egypt at last, and hatred of the United States too. In response, America need only quietly explain that we no longer subsidize dictators — or terrorists who are elected to power through principled American support for democratic elections. I'm sure that after all the invective subsides, the Egyptians can sort out both our logic and idealism.