Foreign desk: If It\u2019s Not a US War, Who Cares?<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump \u201ccalls himself the \u2018president of peace\u2019 and says he has \u2018ended eight wars,\u2019 \u201d\u00a0notes the Washinton Examiner\u2019s Byron York<\/a>.\u00a0Trouble is, \u201chardly anyone cares.\u201d<\/p>\n Absent \u201ca shooting war\u00a0involving the United States going on,\u201d Americans don\u2019t think much about foreign policy. <\/p>\n In an October Gallup poll, just 1% cited it as a top concern. Trump says he\u2019s ended wars between: Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n \u201cDid you know about all of these conflicts?\u00a0Maybe not.\u201d Sure, if he could \u201csettle a dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia, fine.\u201d <\/p>\n But \u201cTrump was elected to do something about the economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Educator: Making Liberal Arts Matter<\/p>\n \u201cThe liberal arts promise to cultivate wisdom, but wisdom alone no longer pays the rent,\u201d\u00a0sighs Samuel J. Abrams at RealClear Education<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kevin Carey\u2019s New York Times essay on small colleges closing is \u201cboth elegy and warning,\u201d but Carey \u201cmisses a deeper truth\u201d behind the crisis: \u201cColleges have stopped proving why knowledge matters to the civic life of a free people.\u201d<\/p>\n With AI \u201crewriting the rules of knowledge work\u201d and students needing the tools to question those systems, \u201cthe mission of liberal arts colleges must adapt.\u201d Liberal arts students need an \u201ceducation that integrates reflection with practice.\u201d <\/p>\n In place of the \u201ccollapsing\u201d ivory tower, campuses must be \u201ca bridge between contemplation and action, tradition and innovation, mind and world.\u201d<\/p>\n From the right: Guardrails Needed<\/p>\n The \u201castonishing fraud unfolding in Minnesota\u201d proves GOP reformers were right to call out such abuse in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,\u00a0argues The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial board<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201c \u2018No one was doing anything about the red flags,\u2019 one defendant\u2019s attorney\u00a0told The New York Times. \u2018It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n More, rails the board: When officials flagged suspect filings, scammers \u201ccried racial discrimination and the money kept flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump emphasized the role of ethnic Somalis, \u201cbut the main problem\u201d isn\u2019t \u201cethnicity or migration.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the incentives for indolence and fraud at the heart of the welfare state. All that free money with few guardrails is an invitation to theft.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Culture critic: Celebs\u2019 Lame Anti-Israel Bias<\/p>\n Sting, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood and other celeb creatives \u201chave announced their support for a campaign to free arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti from the Israeli prison in which he is serving consecutive life sentences for the murder of innocents,\u201d\u00a0groans Commentary\u2019s Seth Mandel<\/a>.<\/p>\n This silly campaign has \u201cchosen to appropriate Nelson Mandela\u2019s name in a transparent attempt to launder Barghouti\u2019s legacy of evil.\u201d <\/p>\n What an \u201cinsult\u201d to Mandela, \u201cexplicitly\u201d equating him \u201cwith an unrepentant terrorist.\u201d Eno claims a Barghouti release \u201cwould mark a turning point in this long struggle,\u201d but a turning point to\u00a0what?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe pro-Palestinian activist universe,\u201d notes Mandel, insists \u201cthat Israel is the one holding up a two-state solution,\u201d so why the\u00a0\u201cneed to release Barghouti\u201d unless your goal is something else?<\/p>\n Conservative: The Hypocritical Eurovision Boycott<\/p>\n