John D.S. Allen: “This is an opportunity for reform from the bottom up. And it's an opportunity for leadership from the top down.”

It almost defies belief that someone would be leading such a double life and yet taking such a hard line in public.

I support the vaccine mandate. I wrote about this in The Washington Post last month. We hit the limit of the voluntary approach. We’ve tried the hand-holding, we’ve tried cajoling, we’ve tried the beer and the lotteries. It’s not working…

This is the chance the President has. And I hope he'll seize it.

The knockout blow in insurgency is not delivered by the military. The knockout blow is delivered by the development of credible governance and economic opportunity.