IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Thuggery 101: A Few Basics For President

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Thuggery 101: A Few Basics For President

Lesson Three: The more we speak out about the harsh rule of thugs, the more oppressed people will come to respect us. Our past resistance to Ahmadinejad may help explain why the Iranian people seem to admire us more than do many in the Arab street, whose dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and Egypt we so fawningly have praised.

Lesson Four: Thugs can never be trusted — whether an Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin of the past or the rogue's gallery of today. Ahmadinejad is lying about his peaceful plans for nuclear technology. Kim Jong Il continued his nuclear program when he promised that he would not. Syria's Bashar Assad hid his nuclear reactor under construction.

Lesson Five: Most of the world's problems are caused by a handful of thugs. Anytime one can be isolated and replaced by a consensual government, the world gets just a bit safer.