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Prager University: The American Trinity
Published Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: The Sleight of Hand Behind Obama’s Agenda
Published Friday, March 6, 2009 at 9:12 am
At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt [...]
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...Charles Krauthammer: A Gaffe, an Absurdity, and a Policy
Published Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Obama cited Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as presidents who met with enemies. Does he know no history? Neither Roosevelt nor Truman ever met with any of the leaders of the Axis powers. Obama must be referring to the pictures he’s seen of Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, and Truman and Stalin at Potsdam. Does [...]
Continue reading...John R. Bolton: Obama the naive
Published Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Barack Obama’s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea “without preconditions” is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign. Consider his [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Why It’s So Hard to Win
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:42 am
Is it five or ten or fifteen — years that are necessary to win wars of counterinsurgency such as Iraq? By now, Americans are well acquainted with such warnings that patience — along with political and economic reforms, not just arms — defeats guerrillas. In these messy fights, Western nations can’t, for both practical and [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Petraeus’s Success
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:40 am
When asked about Shiite militia domination of southern Iraq, Petraeus patiently went through the four provinces, one by one, displaying a degree of knowledge of the local players, terrain, and balance of power that no one in Washington — and few in Iraq — could match. When Biden thought he had a gotcha — contradictions [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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