The New York Post’s cover, “Surrender Monkeys,” strikes about the right note for me today, regarding the Baker commission report. Elsewhere, Ralph Peters, who to me is often but not always on the money, says:

Former Secretary of State James Baker and his panelists are trying to shore up the failing regional system that their generation designed. Released yesterday, their report doesn’t offer “a new way forward.” Its recommendations echo past failures. And it shows no sense of how gravely the world has changed.

Taking a longer view of things on today’s 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor is Victor Davis Hanson, making comparisons and drawing lessons:

A stronger, far more affluent United States believes it can use less of its power against the terrorists than a much poorer America did against the formidable Japanese and Germans.

World War II, which saw more than 400,000 Americans killed, was not nearly as controversial or frustrating as one that has so far taken less than one-hundredth of that terrible toll.

And after Pearl Harbor, Americans believed they had no margin of error in an elemental war for survival. Today, we are apparently convinced that we can lose ground, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, and still not lose either the war or our civilization.

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