I think Douhat is calling for more posturing by Western tough guys against the Islamic threat. He didn't mention any policies he had in mind, just more standing tall by men who won't go to fight.

Here is my guess as to the policies he could have mentioned by didn't:

More beligerant Op-Eds

More inflammatory speeches

More surveillance on Muslims

No reduction in the National Security State

No war crimes investigations wherever Muslims are victims

Perhaps he could have been arguing for applying the COIN warfare strategy to the entire Muslim world. Where our soldiers occupy Muslim lands, befriend the populace, and turn them away from extremism by waving guns and dollars in their faces.

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This level of socialism is truly shocking. Treasury dollars moved at executive fiat, to whatever company the executive choses. Yet our financial wizards of the universe continue to sell us the free market miracle song and dance. Even in honest socialist countries, the dear leader usually didn't have this kind of unilateral power. Hugo Chavez cannot simply write checks like this without some kind of authorization by the legislature. Even Castro needed the help of the army to nationalize things. Here Obama could simply write a check, at will, in secret, with no oversight. The only difference is that Chavez and Castro seek to better the lives of the poor and miserable, whilst Obama will seek to insulate men of power never seen before in human history for the risks of their own decisions. This kind of discretionary power will be the end the American experiment.

Great setup for when the identity of the killers is released. Waco guys upset that Austin gays are in the military? Or Austin gays upset that Waco guys are in the military?

The riskiness of minorities is rearing its ugly head again. If only we hadn't listened to Carter and given all those loans to risky minority commercial real estate owners. Clearly Fannie and Freddie enabled the minority take over of our commercial real estate. The illegal aliens can chalk up another victory in crashing our commercial real estate market with their intransigence.

But the GM unions need to tear up their deals. Can we call it a class war yet? Please?

Rumsfeld said that without snark and with total honesty. You just didn't pick up on the two key clauses.

OUR means liberty for the non-muslim man. Our is a very important words because you always have to ask who counts as "our". Clearly Rumsfeld doesn't include muslims in "our".

AT ALL COSTS means anything may be done to muslims in an effort to protect OUR liberty. Once you make the jump to hearing racism in his words then his words make perfect sense.

Policy is not decided by democratic approval. The opinion of the people matter once every 2 / 4 / 6 years depending on the office. Bush understood this and pushed his agenda. Obama should do the same.

Using Woods as a prop for a sports athlete in an economics example is not the same thing as writing about Woods's personal life tabloid adventures. In the economics example, any similarly situated athlete would have done the job. Krugman could have put in: Jordan, Kobe, Beckam, or Fedor and could have had the same economics example.

Geithner - covered up for bank theft through the bailout program. Was the prime overseer of the those that caused the crisis and did nothing.

Summers - first man in line to stop a New Deal that might improve the working man's life. And largely responsible for the deregulation that caused the crisis.

Bernanke - probably responsible for averting a second great depression. He successfully kept the financial sector from imploding. That the real economy hasn't picked up is because of poor policy coming from the White house. Compare Bernanke to Greenspan. Greenspan would have actively made the situation worse to further his JOhn Galt fantasies.

Pelosi's Congress knows we need a real workfare jobs bill, but the white house is holding it back.

If Bernanke goes down, then we are only left with plutocrat agents guarding the nations wealth from the poor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/03/bernanke-channels-willie_n_378963.html

In commenting on how to balance budgets, Bernanke's sole suggestion was cutting social security / medicaid / medicare. He refused to address transaction taxes / top tier income tax fixes. Bernanke is in fact a tool of the powerful against the weak. I withdraw my support.

MSNBC's editorial content leans left currently. What is Comcast going to do to the editorial boards at MSNBC? Can't wait to hear Olbermann / Maddow start talking about how awful net neutrality is and how it hurts consumers freedom to have their content selected for them by Comcast.

Helmand province is not the center of gravity of the insurgency. Khandahar is! Helmand is just where the drugs are. But we aren't going to burn the drugs. So ... what are we doing there? Chasing 100 guys around? Until Khandahar is taken, we are just messing around chasing a few insurgents.

If the insurgents of Helmand start to think they will lose, you know what they will do? They will bury their weapons and return to plowing the fields. Offensives like this show the folly of this mission.