Good God. Ben Shapiro, YOU are one of America's failings. Your arrogant intolerance and bitterly divisive ranting make YOU a destructive force in American life. I notice that you did not present a single new idea, nor did you acknowledge that doing it your way for 8 years hasn't been a raging success.
I can only assume you were trying to be funny when you criticized President Obama by saying honesty is not part of his administration. Get out your dictionary, Ben. As you are an apologist for the President who perpetrated the biggest fraud on the American people ever, I believe you simply do not know what the definition of honesty is!

Great comments, Ben.

Yes, Obama is rapidly showing the world that he a spineless ,we wanna make ya feel good, individual.

Kathy, hold on while the rest of us sit back and watch Obama undermine the country's ability
to effectively defend itself. But I know you will feel good about all of the hope and change.

Sir;.... Do  you feel liberty is essential in your life??? How would you define it??? Because I do not want to quote Ho Chi Minh, since digging through a mountain of books is not on my list of todo's, but I will spare time to correct you none the less... Ho said something like: We, meaning they, were the ones fighting for Western Values and Philosophy, meaning nationalism and materialism, while the materially minded West was upholding essentially spiritual values like freedom and individualism... Now; that is my paraphrase of something read once, and as soon filed away, some thirty years ago; but if the point is the export of liberty as we know it to the  Middle East; when are we going to get around to asking them if that is what they want??? We cannot say to the Muslims that we have not supported the most repressive regimes in the world... So what if their religion seems repressive to our standards??? The fact is that every single one of them consents to that religion before they are bound by it... They must testify that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet...The liberty we think must be proved they take for granted, that no man can be bound but by his own word freely given.... Let me suggest; that if Israel wants this war, -that you call the war against terror-, which is more a war against truth, then you should fight it yourselves... We may have lost more people fighting your wars in the last eight years than you have lost in the last twenty...Certainly we have poured more treasure into the mix than you folks have...No one will benefit more than you will by the weakening of all Midldle Eastern people...  But the prospect of long term peace is reduced by every moment we engage in this mindless strife... Let me suggest the possiblility that those people are different....They are not like the untermench Americans who bow before the superiority of their Hebrew kings.... They think they have a right to revenge, and to justice; and these are notions we have long abandoned in the West....You do not have to give them peace... You do not have to give them justice... But America must ask why we fight to support this monkey on our backs called Israel... Ultimately we share a value with the Muslim... We want religious freedom... If we do not make a fetish of our religion, while the Jews and Muslims do, then that is as it is... Neither should we make a fetish of Liberty and Western Democracy or Law.... We cannot get people to accept our ways at the point of a gun, and should not try... We cannot even show ourselves that we have freedom or democracy in any meaningful quantity... Rather than export what we find so necessary, we should economize it here...Now, we have freedom and democracy for the rich... We should make sure everyone enjoys some... Only then should we consider export....Thanks...Sweeney

Mr. Sweeney, my apologies for the rock comment in another post of mine. I find your argument intriguing, although circular. Your strong pacifist bent is honorable (to me) but you seem strangely willing to accept the violent and intolerant rhetoric of Islamic fundamentalism as equal to our Western ideal of religious freedom. As you know, freedom from religion is as important as freedom of religion.