Foreign Affairs
At some point, after the questions keep piling up, one overriding and fundamental question begs to be answered: Whose side is Obama on? Obama Ready to Slash Nuclear Arsenal: Disturbing report, from The Guardian Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and has called for a…
The rapid transformation of this country into a European-style socialist democracy is certainly distressing. American life is on its way to becoming more difficult and less free, less innovative — in a word, less American. But it is the combination of that atrophy with the existence of nations seeking to duplicate the international accomplishment of…
Headlines from Polish and Czech newspapers: “Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page. “No Radar. Russia won,” the largest Czech daily, Mlada Fronta Dnes, declared in a front-page headline. Aren’t you glad George W. Bush isn’t president anymore so the…
No missile shield for Poland and Czech Republic and the Iranian missile threat is downgraded. Unilateral appeasement, plain and simple, to countries who wish America ill will. Furthermore, an action taken without realizing any simultaneous concessions from Russia on Iran, Georgia, and other Eastern European countries. Yet another example of how Obama coddles tyrants and…
It’s easy to lose sight of the possibility (likelihood) of civilizational decline in tyrannies — as if only Western style democracies can stumble into demographic traps. Perhaps we suspect that there’s something cultural that permitted the tyranny and will negate Western rules of thumb. But as Joseph Bottum points out, in Iran, the population has…
Honduras: …the Honduran government disclosed yesterday the identity of the officials whose visas have been revoked by the United States as part of Washington’s continuing pressure to reinstate former president Manuel Zelaya, namely, the successor president and 17 other officials…The revocation of the visas for the 14 Supreme Court judges is a nice touch. In…
With H/T to Instapundit, never forgetting means never forgetting about the true significance of 9/11. Jennifer Rubin has more on the growing and deliberate amnesia. We are at war and Obama is in denial. More here, here, and here, too. In addition, Obama’s parallel tendency to undermine our historical allies is driving changed behaviors by…
So, many of the same voices whom the U.S. military and President Bush proved wrong about Iraq — Sen. Chuck Hagel (R., Nebraska) prominent among them — and stepping forward to offer their wisdom to President Obama on Afghanistan. My stance on the matter is much like my issue-by-issue stance on Iraq: The president is…
My recent piece in the Wall Street Journal addressed the incentives that the Obama Administration is creating by pressing hard on Israel. Oddly, this is the very same U.S. president who believes it’s important not to appear to be “meddling” in Iranian affairs.
Monique has noted in the comments to a prior post that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a definite stand on the matter of Lubna Hussein, the woman who may be sentenced to 40 lashes for the “crime” of wearing trousers in Sudan. AFP described described his reaction yesterday…President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Thursday that France…