OBAMA TRIES, but he cannot avoid evil.

Ever since Ronald Reagan the warmonger landed in Washington (or since George McGovern said "Come home, America") liberals longed for a foreign policy president who was up to their standards, was as "thoughtful" as they were, and understood all their dreams.

Someone who knew that talk of evil and good was always sophomoric, that the resort to force always was counterproductive, and that the crazy idea that this country was special — promoted by yahoos like Abraham Lincoln — was better described by their own Michael Kinsley as just another excuse to break rules.

Came the dawn and they got him, and we went in six years from a stable Iraq with al Qaeda contained to a Middle East both in flames and in pieces, with civil wars raging in three or more countries and an Islamist movement too bloody for even al Qaeda to stomach, and Russia, having swallowed the Crimea, hovering over Ukraine. Key to all this is a smaller American footprint, a refusal to use force or the threat thereof when it would have been useful, and a failure to rally the world against evil. In short, all the things the liberals called for. We hope they like the results.

Burying one's head in the sand leaves one wide open for an ass-kicking.

"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you run out of other people’s money: thieves fall out among themselves on how to divide up the dwindling spoils."

FUNDING DEMOCRATS: the role of public employee unions.

Surprised?

THE SOLUTION TO LIBERALISM.

MASTEN SPACE SYSTEMS developing VTVL [vertical takeoff-vertical landing] vehicle for DARPA XS-1 program. But if it's VTVL, why does it have wings?

JEFF JACOBY: Your strategy was wrong, Mr. President. Obama may be forced by events to reverse course, but admit he was wrong? Never.

WHO NEEDS A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY when you've got Obama?

A TALE OF TWO KINGS.