Bring on the Truth Commission

Noemie Emery of the Weekly Standard would like the hearings to begin.

'And talk about troubled, let's tell the truth about a common assumption of America's leaders, till now. In war, they tried to minimize casualties, but they put the survival of their people and allies above the comfort and ease of aggressors and enemies. Truman dropped the bomb because it was his duty to save the Allied and American servicemen who would have died or been wounded in the fight for the Japanese homeland. Perhaps if another September 11 occurs because "harsh" methods are dropped from the repertoire, Senator Patrick Leahy might want to visit the victims' survivors and explain that their relatives are no longer with us because of his passion for the good opinion of the rest of mankind.

Barack Obama promised to be a nontraditional leader, and in some ways he is. He is the first president to have gone abroad and apologized so much for his country's supposed sins, the first to sit calmly by while his country was savaged by the likes of Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega without making a protest, the first to try to persecute a past administration for its political judgments, and the first to investigate a predecessor and his administration for having been a success.

The first job of a president is to safeguard his country and fellow citizens, which Bush did, to the apparent dismay of the opposition.'