For years I have enjoyed Mark Helprin’s novels – “Winter’s Tale” is specifically quite good.  What many may not have known is that Helprin is a pretty prolific and uncompromising political opinion writer – and I believe that for many of my readers he may come off as strident and absolutist.  In other words, his writing not the typical dreamy political ramblings of an arts-oriented observer. 

This is from his latest in the Wall Street Journal, which is sure to raise some objections among some of you, myself included:

What we have here is an inadvertent homage to Lewis Carroll: We are going to cancel a defense that takes five years to mount, because the threat will not materialize for five years. And we will not deploy land-based interceptors in Europe, because our new plan is to deploy land-based interceptors in Europe. (…)