Archive | August, 2007
Joanna Chandler: A New Dreyfus Affair
On September 12, 2007, Philippe Karsenty of Paris will present his appeal of a judgment for defamation rendered in favor of Charles Enderlin, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for France 2, the television station responsible for airing the Mohamed Al Durah hoax which was adopted, at birth, as official informatiom in nearly every corner of the world. [...]
Continue reading...Austin Bay: Gen. Petraeus’ Pivotal Report
Published Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 11:20 pm
There really is no particularly informative historical precedent for Gen. David Petraeus’ upcoming public assessment of Iraq. Perhaps we are entering new historical terrain, where the commanding general’s pivotal strategic gambit is a media event. And media event it is. With its certain long-term global import and short-term political impact, Petraeus’ report meets a hustling [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: Which Iraq War Do You Want To End?
Published Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:32 pm
When people say that they want to end the war in Iraq, I always want to ask them which war they mean. There are currently at least three wars, along with several subconflicts, being fought on Iraqi soil. The first, tragically, is the battle for mastery between Sunni and Shiite. The second is the campaign [...]
Continue reading...Bret Stephens: Global warming is more alarmist than alarming
Published Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I confess: Denial never solves anything. But neither does sensational and deceptive journalism. Newsweek illustrates this point by its choice of cover art–a picture of the sun, where the surface temperature hovers around 6,000 degrees Celsius. Given that the consensus scientific estimate for average temperature increases over the next century is a comparatively modest 2.6 [...]
Continue reading...William Kristol: The Left Shudders and Bush leads
Published Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 10:47 am
Not in the Vietnam war of 1963-68, the disastrous years where policy was shaped by the best and brightest of American liberalism. Not in the Vietnam war of 1969-73, when Richard Nixon and General Creighton Abrams managed to adjust our strategy, defeat the enemy, and draw down American troops all at once–an achievement affirmed and [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: They wait for us to run again
Published Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 10:35 am
George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left’s most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians, academics and pundits that we could really use anti-trust legislation to protect us [...]
Continue reading...John Stossel: Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO’s Health-Care Study
Published Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1:49 pm
The New York Times recently declared “the disturbing truth … that … the United States is a laggard not a leader in providing good medical care.” As usual, the Times editors get it wrong. Full article
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: The debate on Iraq takes a turn
Published Friday, August 24, 2007 at 10:01 pm
After months of surreality, the Iraq debate has quite abruptly acquired a relationship to reality. Following the Democratic victory last November, panicked Republican senators began rifling the thesaurus to find exactly the right phrase to express exactly the right nuance to establish exactly the right distance from the president’s Iraq policy, while Murtha Democrats searched [...]
Continue reading...Amir Taheri: France’s Pro-U.S. Turn on Iraq
Published Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 12:51 pm
August 21, 2007 — ONE key promise that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to “correct foreign-policy mistakes” made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac. Chief among these was Chirac’s desperate efforts to prevent Iraq’s liberation from Saddam Hussein’s regime of terror. Chirac failed to save his friend’s regime but [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 11:24 pm
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