Critics of the U.S. war in Afghanistan have been wrong about virtually everything. They predicted that a Soviet-style quagmire awaited American troops; that chaos on the ground would turn millions of Afghans into refugees; and that tens of thousands of civilians would be killed by errant U.S. bombs. They saw a conflict that would be immoral in its effect, if not its intent.
State of the Union: The Heritage Foundation vows to fight the uniparty as Senator Josh Hawley lays out a foreign policy inspired by Alexander Hamilton and Theodore Roosevelt.
President Bush, in his third State of the Union address, recognizedthat the strength of this nation rests on certain fundamental"pillars of civilization"-marriage, the family, and religiouscongregations-that government cannot replicate or replace.
When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled last November that homosexuals should have the right to marry, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group, claimed that the decision had nothing to do with religion. Rather, the ogranization said, "it's about the civil responsibilities and protections afforded through a government-issued civil marriage license."