“The administration has remained as quiet as possible during the Iranian election season and in the days of street protests since Friday’s vote.” – Washington Post , Monday June 15, 2009 “We’re going to withhold comment. … I mean we’re just waiting to see.” – Vice-President Joe Biden “We are monitoring the situation as it [...]
Continue reading...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...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...Published Saturday, August 4, 2007 at 9:51 pm
The more confident a nation is, even when poor, the more likely it seems to admire America. Some of our best supporters turn out to be one-billion person India (59 percent favorable rating), Japan (61 percent), and South Korea (58 percent) — all democratic, capitalist juggernauts, and appreciative of liberal American trade policy and U.S. [...]
Continue reading...Published Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Nelson Mandela and five other senior statesmen will today form themselves into a team of international troubleshooters called “The Elders“. Filling out the lineup, we have: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan Former Irish president Mary Robinson Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus I have [...]
Continue reading...Published Saturday, July 7, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, presents his vision for removing global threats, and the rebuilding phase that must follow.
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Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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