11-17-08

Jules Crittenden: If change keeps mattering like this, you have to ask yourself whether maybe the change that would have mattered most would have been to just amend the constitution and let George Bush be prez again …

John Hinderaker: Jim Manzi has done some of the best analysis of the proposed bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler–or, one should more properly say, bailout of the United Auto Workers, otherwise slated for extinction. Here, he addresses the theory that the Big Three are in the midst of a turnaround, and if we only keep them afloat a while longer, they’ll be profitable again.

Palinamania: She’s worth a $7 million advance, the Times of London reported.

Richard Fernandez: David Kilcullen writes that Afghanistan is still winnable. But only just…The bottom line here is that the War on Terror is far from over. Whether we are, as Churchill once said, not at the beginning of the end, but at least at the end of the beginning ultimately depends on whether there is a consensus in the West that can sustain the long campaign that Kilcullen describes.

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