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Dennis Prager: Dear Iranians: Don’t Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left)
“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...Mark Steyn: Pirate problem joins North Korean missile, Iranian nukes as ‘distractions’ for Obama.
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The Reuters headline put it this way: “Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama.” So many distractions, aren’t there? Only a week ago, the North Korean missile test was an “annoying distraction” from Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons and his pledge that America would lead the way in disarming. And only a [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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...Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists
Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Let’s imagine we’ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, à la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Outreach, Yes. Apology, No.: We’ve Never Been Islam’s Enemy
Published Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:20 am
The WaPo’s Charles Krauthammer comments on President Obama’s appearance on al-Arabiya TV: Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest [...]
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...James Kirchick: Bush never lied to us about Iraq
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were [...]
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...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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