Submitted by Mitchell Langbert, Nov 8, 2006 12:57

I agree with the New York Sun on many things, including the war in Iraq and the importance of cleaning up the fiscal and budgetary miasma in Albany. However, unless the New York State militia is to take up arms to back Governor-elect Spitzer's declaration of war, the last I heard foreign policy is not part of the governor's role.

Although in itself a small point, lack of focus has been a serious problem in New York. Our liberal majority lives in a delusional world in which management of ineptly-conceived programs does not matter; there is no such thing as a pothole; the state's taking of property for private use has no effect on economic incentives; and public sector unions can endlessly loot productive workers' paychecks without declines in the state's economy. This delusional pattern, which I have attributed to liberal groupthink and to a left-wing pattern of narcissism, has been a major problem in New York. The governor ought not to be distracted with foreign policy issues, and the competence of a candidate ought not to be linked to them.

>"One of the most important things about Mr. Spitzer's campaign has been that he was anti-Lamontian on substance, relatively hawkish on the Middle East, including Iraq."

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