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From the Obama Two-Step to the Trump Waltz
From the Obama Two-Step to the Trump Waltz

Wall Street Journal

timea day ago

  • Politics
  • Wall Street Journal

From the Obama Two-Step to the Trump Waltz

Had Peggy Noonan been able to read Alvin H. Rosenfeld's op-ed 'Israel Goes to War, and Dancing Breaks Out' (July 12) before composing 'Trump Is Coming Around on Ukraine' (Declarations, July 12), she might have dubbed her column, 'While America Danced, War Broke Out.' Israelis, perhaps because of the determination of their leaders, find the nerve to remain even-tempered and have the energy to dance while sheltering from Iranian bombs.

It's Time to Revisit the President's War Powers
It's Time to Revisit the President's War Powers

Wall Street Journal

time25-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Wall Street Journal

It's Time to Revisit the President's War Powers

For now the question whether President Trump needed congressional authorization to take military action against Iran is academic. Nevertheless, Peggy Noonan is right that the framers vested Congress, not the president, with the power to declare war ('Iraq's Shadow Over the Iran Debate,' Declarations, June 21). That power is in tension with the fact, underscored by the Supreme Court's Civil War-era Prize Cases, that the president has not merely the authority but the duty to quell foreign threats to American national security and vital interests. The matter of whether there is such a viable threat is a political one, left by the Constitution to officials electorally accountable to the people whose lives are at stake. It is nonjusticiable: Congress must vindicate its own authority because the courts won't.

Trump and the Common Man
Trump and the Common Man

Wall Street Journal

time13-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Wall Street Journal

Trump and the Common Man

Peggy Noonan rarely misses the mark. Yet in her column 'Republican Sleaze, Democratic Slump' (Declarations, June 7), she writes that a video plea made by Antoine Massey, a prison escapee, and addressed to President Trump and two other rappers, betokens 'a connection between the common man and president the likes of which I don't know we've ever quite seen in our national political life.' Indeed, we still haven't, because Mr. Massey isn't a 'common man.' Fugitives know who their allies are, and Mr. Trump has shown his reckless disregard for the rule of law, evident on Jan. 6, 2021, and after, with his pardons for rioters. Ms. Noonan clearly appreciates this, but she fails to make the connection in marveling over the president's 'hold on the public imagination.' That hold is akin to the shock and fascination we feel over a 20-car pileup. The difference is that a spectacular accident is exactly that, an accident, not a prolonged and embarrassing wreck of our collective moral sensibility.

What Do Students Think of War? A Vet Reports
What Do Students Think of War? A Vet Reports

Wall Street Journal

time30-05-2025

  • General
  • Wall Street Journal

What Do Students Think of War? A Vet Reports

I can't help but feel that Peggy Noonan wrote her column 'Memorial Day and the Best Movies of Our Lives' while wearing rose-colored glasses (Declarations, May 24). She writes that 'we're all recovering from World War II, or any war, or any era, together.' That's a nice thought, but it was far from my experience when I left the Marine Corps and went to college in 2014. I was more often called a 'cog in the military-industrial complex,' a 'mindless drone' or a 'baby-killer' than shown compassion or understanding by my peers, who had no connection to or real knowledge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When I tried to explain to the feminists in my English class some of the things I saw regarding the treatment of women overseas, they told me, 'That doesn't really happen.' People will always have different views on wars, but we've entered an era of denial, distortion and revisionist history. These experiences didn't end after my time in academia either. I hope Ms. Noonan will forgive me for not sharing her feelings of togetherness. Much of America has lost the plot about Memorial Day. I pray we can find it again someday. Daniel Carpenter

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