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Charles Krauthammer: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
I’m not against gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. Obama was in a giving mood throughout Europe. While Gordon Brown was trying to make his American DVDs work and the queen was rocking to her new iPod, the rest of Europe was enjoying a more fulsome Obama gift. [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Prager: America Has a Naive President
Published Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 11:49 am
“The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.” — President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: “Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament.” It [...]
Continue reading...Judea Pearl: Is anti-Zionism hate? Yes.
Published Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation — a collective bonded by a common history — and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel. Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other [...]
Continue reading...Jack Engelhard: Spare the Pieties on Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Israel is a Jewish State. Is that your problem? Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy. But please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those “good people” protesting throughout Europe against Israel ’s defensive operation in [...]
Continue reading...J.G. Thayer: Declaring Victory in the Jaws of Defeat
Published Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Arab nations have a habit of denying obvious military losses. Saddam Hussein declared victory in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He had been thoroughly defeated, his forces crushed and driven out of Kuwait, and he was forced to accept severe restrictions, sanctions, and conditions in exchange for being left in power — but he [...]
Continue reading...David Frum: Think Again: Bush’s Legacy
Published Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:16 pm
“Iraq Is Bush’s Only Foreign-Policy Legacy” Hardly. There’s no denying that the war in Iraq has defined the presidency of George W. Bush in important ways. But history is unlikely to remember the war as negatively as most assume. “The Iraq War Has Made America Less Safe” Prove it. In the two decades leading up [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: A Stand-up President
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:38 pm
George W. Bush has made plenty of mistakes. Probably the biggest one was thinking that just because he could get along with Democrats in Texas, he could get along with Democrats in Congress. Silly man! Democrats in Texas care about governing Texas. Democrats in Congress care only about gaining political advantage. Slow learner, there, Mr. [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on 9/11, six years later
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:38 am
September 11 was not the first and won’t be the last terrorist assault on our citizens and culture. And the subsequent factionalism and left/right bickering over the proper course to defeat the jihadists — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, the courts, at the Hague, or the United Nations — did not originate solely after 9/11. But [...]
Continue reading...Lenny Ben-David: Do Israel’s critics have anything original to say?
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10:59 am
The Passover Seder liturgy contains a pessimistic verse: “In every generation an enemy arises seeking to eradicate the Jewish people.” In the last hundred years, those enemies included the Russian czar, Stalin, Hitler, Gamal Abdul Nasser and more recently, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Reviewing recent publications and utterances by some of the most vocal detractors of [...]
Continue reading...Andrew C. McCarthy: No More Illusions
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10:56 am
NRO’s Andrew C. McCarthy reviews fellow NRO contributor, and Iran scholar, Michael Ledeen’s latest book: The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction. His latest book, The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction, is released today. It is required reading for anyone — which ought to mean everyone — desirous [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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