America has fallen through the looking glass into something resembling Lewis Carroll's sequel to “Alice in Wonderland. We are now in an un-wonderland where the Red Queen’s demand for “sentence before verdict” has become the law of the land.

A few examples underscore why America's world has been turned upside down.

Taiwan is a case in point. Congress has made it absolutely clear that China is this nation’s greatest threat and believes that its president, Xi Jinping, is serious about preparing his army to seize and occupy Taiwan by 2027. So the U.S., according to the Taiwan Relations Act must help Taiwan defend itself. And under certain circumstances, the U.S. might help defend Taiwan with its forces.

The legal and moral argument is that international aggression against an independent state cannot be tolerated. As the U.S. and its NATO allies have come to assist Ukraine against unprovoked Russian aggression, Taiwan could fall into this category.

But Taiwan’s........

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