When Ben and I talked last week to Maj. Todd Schmidt about his proposal that the U.S. encourage Western-style education in the Muslim world -- part of winning the "war of ideas" in the war on terror -- there was one clear hitch: Would the Muslim world accept U.S. education efforts? Schmidt's response: The U.S. probably needs to keep its fingerprints off the program and work through international institutions.

A couple of months ago, I suggested that Antonin Scalia's view of the Constitution allows you to torture people suspected of being terrorists -- but not people convicted of being terrorists. Jim Lakely, bless him, suggested that this only applied to foreign nationals who aren't protected by the Constitution -- so no worries, really.

A couple of weeks ago I found myself giddy to be agreeing with the Washington Times that the United States should be helping build schools in the Middle East. Well, it turns out that some folks in the Army think that's a good idea, too. Maj. Todd Schmidt writes in the latest issue of Military Review:

This is bad:

I always get a little dizzy when this happens, but let me endorse this idea from today's Washington Times: