Foreign Policy eviscerates Obama’s (foreign policy, that is). Excerpt: …[U]nlike Bush, whose flaw-riddled first-term foreign policy was followed by important and not fully appreciated second-term course corrections, Obama seems steadfast in his resistance both to learning from his past errors … Continue reading →
Ben Domenech thinks Americans have remained consistently Jacksonian: Despite the opinion of elites on either extreme ”“ whether motivated by humanitarian or democracy project aims ”“ the fact is that, 13 years after 9/11, it’s remarkable how coherent and consistent … Continue reading →
Here was the Left’s plan for defeat in Iraq, in their own words. I wrote about it in the early days of this blog. They were planning to get Congress to cut funding, but that turned out to be unnecessary. … Continue reading →
Romney was right about the Iraq pullout. George W. Bush was right about the Iraq pullout. I was right about Obama’s intention to pull out of Iraq, which he had expressed time and again even before he became president (see … Continue reading →
Yesterday’s post on the percentage of Jews in Germany prior to WWII (about .75%) engendered a few questions in the comments section that I figured were interesting enough that they deserved a post of their own. First we have “matthew49,” … Continue reading →
From Caroline Glick: The Obama administration’s decision to side with the members of the jihadist axis against Israel by adopting their demand to open Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt has served as the final nail in the coffin of … Continue reading →
I remember reading some of Lee Harris’s essays post-9/11 and being impressed, but after that I lost track of him. So I missed his book Civilization and its Enemies: The Next Stage of History when it first came out in … Continue reading →
Again. Why not? Who’s going to stop them? Obama’s presidency offers a golden opportunity for Putin and tyrants all over the world to act as they please. The 80s are calling, and they want their foreign policy back. So are … Continue reading →
…ISIS is interested in war with Obama.* Is Obama getting more interested as a result of recent events? This writer certainly seems to think so. I think he very much overstates it—although I think there’s an element of truth to … Continue reading →
Remember the 80s game show “Chain Reaction”? I do. I liked it because you had to be a bit clever to play, and it was about words. In case you don’t remember, this might refresh your memory: Maureen Dowd must … Continue reading →
Too little, too late. At least for the moment, though, our assistance seems to have actually assisted the Kurds, although Maliki is playing political games and may be digging in and refusing to relinquish power. [NOTE: The title of this … Continue reading →
Quite some time ago I came to the point of having difficulty reading Obama’s speeches and interviews in full. I don’t mean cognitive difficulty; I understand them well enough. I mean a weariness at the overwhelming combination of factual errors, … Continue reading →