For the record, I like David Brooks.  He may not be a perfect conservative, but he is thoughtful and has written some good stuff over the years.  My favorite is the one that he wrote back in 2005 when he correctly pointed out that Roe v. Wade has poisoned our judicial nomination process. He recently wrote one about the U.S. losing Vietnam, Iraq, and now Iran:    Wars, military or economic, are measured by whether you achieved your stated objectives. By this standard the U.S. and its allies lost the war against Iran, but we were able to negotiate terms that gave only our partial surrender, which forces Iran to at least delay its victory. There have now been three big U.S. strategic defeats over the past several decades: Vietnam, Iraq and now Iran.    The big question is, Why did we lose? Why did the combined powers of the Western world lose to a ragtag regime with a crippled economy and without much popular support? Sorry, but...(Read Full Post)