PostPartisan - Quick takes by The Post's opinion writers - August 30, 2009

Will's Double Surrender Policy

It’s hard to imagine a more disastrous blow to vital American security interests than the double surrender George Will is now proposing. To withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan simultaneously would be to abandon American interests and allies in the...

Levi Johnston's Smarmy Tale

In the year and counting since she burst onto the political scene, I haven’t been Sarah Palin’s biggest fan. Charitable would not be the word that comes to mind in describing my atitude toward the former Alaska governor. Finally,...

Sawyer Steps Up

By Jeanne McManus It's wonderful that Diane Sawyer is now joining Katie Couric as a network news anchor. But I'm such a terrible cynic: I think that anytime women outnumber men in a profession it's a sign that men have...

How Jaycee Lee Dugard's Tormentor Got Out

Of all the mysteries surrounding the horrific case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the California woman kidnaped as an 11-year-old in 1991 and held as a sexual slave for the last 18 years, none is more baffling -- or, to...

What About 9/11?

It is extraordinary — just extraordinary — that George Will should write a column urging American and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan without mentioning the events of Sept. 11, 2001. It is as though Walter Lippmann urged his readers, in...

No Will, No Way