Message from the Undead

Shorter David Brooks, "The Sunni-Shiite Conflict Explodes in Iraq", New York Times, June 13, 2014:

I can't understand why President Obama won't do what John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Max Boot, and I tell him to do about Iraq. I mean if we don't know who does? We've had centuries to think about it. As we lie awake in our coffins.

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