In previous posts I have commented on my lack of general enthusiasm for McCain and have tried to explain why I will be voting for him anyway. Reading an article in the New York Sun I ran across a sentence that compressed into as few words possible my rationale.

Regarding the war on terror (and I firmly believe that there is and ought to be one)

"there was nobody else ... who could be trusted not to surrender"

The words are from George Orwell who was referring to Winston Churchill (whom he did not care for at all).

From the article:

To Orwell, a passionate democrat who lived through the hour of democracy's greatest danger, Churchill possessed the indispensable qualification for the leader of a democracy in wartime: he was "able to grasp that wars are not won without fighting."

Amen.