I neither watched nor listened to Obama’s speech last night. Fortunately I was out with friends, so I didn’t even have to ponder whether or not to subject myself to it. I did read about it (and the transcript) when … Continue reading →
From the start, President Obama’s confrontation (for want of a better word) with Syria’s Assad was odd, then meandering and contradictory, but always somewhat mysterious. What was Obama’s goal? Was it just to appear a certain way for political reasons? … Continue reading →
Here’s what Kerry said: “We’re not going to war,” Mr. Kerry told reporters Monday after meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London. “We will be able to hold [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops on the … Continue reading →
I have a new post up at American Thinker entitled “Obama and Syria: Words versus Deeds”: In trying to puzzle out what might be going on with President Obama’s muddled, non-strategic, and fundamentally “unserious” approach to Syria, it helps to … Continue reading →
…and offers the answer “both”: The chaos we see throughout the world results from the Obama misadministration’s lack of preparedness and manifest incompetence from the start. Or does it? Either that or we are left with a much darker possibility: … Continue reading →
…because it’s much more fun to, you know, make stuff up. Facts are not stubborn things, they’re slippery things.
Continue reading →I’ve got a new article up at PJ: “The Magical, Mysterious, Disappearing Obama Red Line.” If you think you know how twisted Obama’s latest statements on the “red line” were, think again. They’re even worse than that. [ADDENDUM: James Taranto … Continue reading →
Obama passes the buck again, this time to the world: “My credibility is not on the line — the international community’s credibility is on the line,” President Barack Obama said Wednesday in Sweden… President Barack Obama said Wednesday the “red … Continue reading →
And here it is: When the President of the United States issues an ultimatum to another sovereign nation, he should know in advance what he is going to do if that ultimatum is rejected.
Continue reading →Paul Mirengoff of Powerline has a controversial post about Obama’s motivations for asking Congress’s approval for going into Syria. Why controversial? Because he attributes principled motives to Obama (and not just the “principle” of playing politics, either). Here’s Mirengoff: So … Continue reading →
The scuttlebutt is that Obama wants to get the members of Congress on the record as voting yeah or nay: His reasoning, according to officials who were in the room [when Obama explained his change of heart to his advisers … Continue reading →
…but this seems completely on target: Syria’s government on Sunday mocked Mr. Obama’s decision, saying it was a sign of weakness. A state-run newspaper, Al Thawra, called it “the start of the historic American retreat,” and said Mr. Obama had … Continue reading →