Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drink champagne.

Some die of thirst.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best.

Expect the worst. Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Oh, for the best.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

Today is Monday, November 11th, 2004.

It is Veterans Day.

And, of course, we, like all Americans of goodwillwill salute those who have served our country so

nobly and with such great sacrifice and have made the world safer and Americans safer

and the world freer and Americans freer. And I hope that it's a good day for veterans.

The one place that veterans apparently will not be welcome is our favorite campus, Columbia

University, where there is going to be a Veterans Day protest against not only the settler

colonials, colonialists, but against people who

work for the great Satan, as I'm sure Joseph Mossad, the notorious Middle Eastern Studies

professor at Columbia would himself in his brain, and maybe perhaps through his lips, refer to the United States

as he is an Iranian stooge, another wonderful man who invited Mahmoudach Madinajad to the campus

of Colombia in 2007, thus in part beginning the career of one Barry Weiss, who now, of course, is a leading figure in the conservative media or the anti-liberal media or the new media that is eating the lunch of the mainstream media as Christine Rosen details in the piece for commentary that we will be

making available to you on Wednesday anyway. And so let us let me introduce executive editor

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