1. The purpose of an editorial/commentary is to explain, persuade, warn, criticize, entertain, praise or answer. What do you think is the purpose of this editorial? Explain your answer.

2. What points does Dr. Sowell make about:
a) How our potential allies view our reliability
b) How the actions of the allies in Europe affected Hitler’s ability to wage war

3. In paragraph 8, Dr. Sowell writes:

The longer the war drags on, through half-measures and tentative tactics, the longer ISIS has to recalibrate its strategies and to sneak its agents into the United States, to launch terrorist attacks inside the American homeland. We can either kill them over there now or have them kill Americans here later.

Ask a parent what he/she thinks about this assertion.