rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
mary, what do you make of this new desire and a large part of people on the american right to take military action potentially against the cartels in mexico? well, i see the political momentum for it gaining. and let s suppose for a minute that we re going to do surgical strikes on a sovereign neighbor without the permission of the government. let s suppose that s a thing which i would question. but, look, i think we need to ask ourselves what do we expect to accomplish, and if the idea is to stop the flow of drugs, i think that s a fantasy. and you can look at afghanistan where we actually had the permission of the government to be in the country, we were on the ground, we were fighting the drug traffickers, and we never succeeded in wiping out the poppy crop or stopping the drug trafficking. and you can look at colombia where people say we had success, but what we had was success in helping uribe, the president at the time, reestablish the presence of the state across the country.