McCUNE: Theunspokentruth, according to "Beyond the Mirror, " is that despite short periods of celebration and hope, no one has so far done the Afghan people right.
During my thirty-plus years working abroad for the CIA, theunspokentruth among case officers like me was that you'd have to be nuts, as the citizen of another country, to be a spy for a foreign intelligence service.
Irrespective of the reputations and the rhetoric of the Democratic and Republican parties today, the empirical correspondence between Republican presidencies and turbocharged entitlement expenditures should underscore the unsettling truth that both political parties have, on the whole, been working together in an often unspoken consensus to fuel the explosion of entitlement spending.