The Week

■ Just wait until the Left gets wind of Vice President Cheney’s secret investments in duct tape.

■ The only use we can think of for this tape is to slap over the mouths of the people who want us to buy it. We are in a war. It likely will last for a very, very long time. A perennial feature of that war will be the threat—and, from time to time, the reality—of terrorism. Certain precautions will be obvious: Time to cancel that Lonely Planet trek through the Yemeni highlands. But broadly speaking a defensive strategy is no strategy at all. We should live our lives, at a risk less than the risk we take every time we enter a car, and let the government take all necessary steps to uphold American strength and justice.

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■ Just wait until the Left gets wind of Vice President Cheney’s secret investments in duct tape.

■ The only use we can think of for this tape is to slap over the mouths of the people who want us to buy it. We are in a war. It likely will last for a very, very long time. A perennial feature of that war will be the threat—and, from time to time, the reality—of terrorism. Certain precautions will be obvious: Time to cancel that Lonely Planet trek through the Yemeni highlands. But broadly speaking a defensive strategy is no strategy at all. We should live our lives, at a risk less than the risk we take every time we enter a car, and let the government take all necessary steps to uphold American strength and justice.