Here’s a riddle for you: How is Obama like Eisenhower? My answer would be: they both love[d] to play golf. David Ignatius sees a great many more similarities. Seriously, he does. I repeat: he is serious. After I wrote the … Continue reading →
…a case to follow with interest.
Continue reading →…here is that the NY Times is actually reporting the story.
Continue reading →Sad, sad, sad, sad. Predictable, predictable, predictable, predictable. As I wrote in February of 2011, not long after the whole Egyptian joyride began: Amidst all the speculation, I think we discount the possibility of an Islamist state at our peril””and, … Continue reading →
Or actually, it is a disaster, but not exactly in the way Gardiner meant. Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based British conservative pundit with foreign policy advisor experience, and in an article in the Telegraph headlined “The White House’s Benghazi bungling … Continue reading →
Michael Totten gets around, and yesterday he talked about what’s been going on lately in Egypt: [Morsi’s] already being called the new Pharaoh. It makes no difference that he was elected. Democracy isn’t just about getting elected. A democratic election … Continue reading →
…is described here. There are many reasons for the success of the coverup. One is the nicely coordinated set of messages from the administration and the MSM. Another is the complexity of the story; people have to be motivated enough … Continue reading →
No surprise whatsoever here: Egypt’s president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year’s uprising. Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the … Continue reading →
…the MSM should have been asking about Benghazi, but won’t. And don’t sit on a hot stove waiting for Obama’s answer. Many of us have said it before, but it bears repeating: this administration poses a great danger because it … Continue reading →
CBS reports that a source says that the Benghazi talking points were changed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, without the knowledge of the White House. Let me stipulate a few things. The first is that I … Continue reading →
Reports are that Petraeus has testified that yes, the CIA knew quite early on that the Benghazi attack was probably terrorism, and no, the CIA wasn’t responsible for Susan Rice’s final talking points, the ones from which that information had … Continue reading →
Thomas Friedman surprised me by offering an interesting take on the state of the Middle East today. I’d summarize it as: Iraq is at present the most stable country in the Arab Middle East, at least relative to the others. … Continue reading →