[Yardstick]

Pretty zingy piece. The whole thing is here:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42579

[Heuristic Hiker]

Thanks for the link:

President Obama offered no theories for why it had not done so during the previous forty years.

Nor for why we he apparently believes that we are in a stronger economic position than in the previous forty years so as to to be able to take on our third war....