-To say the economy is doing well today is to ignore the long effects that the record high borrowing (which produced current job gains) will have on the future economy especially 5-10, 15, 20 years down the road.

-The Karzai government rules today in Afghanistan because he United States and its allies ousted the Taliban. But to say the extremists don't still rule in Afghanistan is like saying the Klan didn't rule in the old South. The fact that we've so effortlessly pointed out the backwardness of such an important nation is all the more evidence of a need for international intervention.

-In referenc to the comment I made earlier about America losing all chances for ultimate superpower status in 1990. I heard this discussed on CSPAN during a conference about American exceptionalism, actually.