Foreign Affairs
Last week, Justin noted a Froma Harrop Projo column where she approvingly cited an organization who believes that the United States should actively work towards cutting its population in half…Negative Population Growth (www.npg.org) thinks that the optimal number for sustaining a decent quality of life in the United States is 150 million. That is half…
A George F. Will thought about Iraq from the winter of 2004 seems increasingly prescient…A manager says, “Our team is just two players away from being a championship team. Unfortunately, the two players are Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.” Iraq is just three people away from democratic success. Unfortunately, the three are George Washington, James…
The Associated Press (via the Washington Post) is reporting that the nomination of John Bolton as United Nations Ambassador will not be sent to the Senate floor anytime soon… John R. Bolton’s quest for a longer lease on his temporary job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations remained elusive Thursday as the Senate shied…
The Associated Press (via the Washington Post) is reporting that Senator John McCain is calling for swift confirmation of the nomination of John Bolton as United Nations ambassador. Senator Lincoln Chafee, whom Senator McCain plans to campaign for in Rhode Island on October 4, is the individual responsible for bottling up the Bolton nomination at…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was laced with what might be interpreted as standard progressive rhetoric. Here’s an example…All members of the United Nations are affected by both the bitter and the sweet events and developments in today’s world. We can adopt firm and logical decisions, thereby improving the…
Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has an op-ed in today’s Projo where he objects to President Bush’s use of the term “Islamic fascists” to describe fascists who are Islamic (or maybe he denies that fascists who are Islamic can even exist; I can’t quite tell)…The phrase “Islamic fascists” has drawn the…
The Connecticut Senate primary between Democratic incumbent Joseph Lieberman and challenger Ned Lamont will be held tomorrow. Mr. Lamont is running as an anti-war candidate. At the heart of anti-war ideology is a belief that attacks against America from radical Islamic groups and governments have become an unchangeable feature of the international system. Anti-war politicians…
In addition to rejecting John Kerry’s hard deadline for withdrawing from Iraq, the Senate on Thursday also voted on an Iraq proposal sponsored by Democratic Senators Jack Reed and Carl Levin. The Reed-Levin amendment was a non-binding resolution that called on the President to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by the end of this year…
Yesterday’s Best of the Web from the Wall Street Journal offers this story: Horrific news out of Iraq, where two U.S. soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker, were either killed or captured and later killed in an enemy attack Friday. Their bodies were found Monday, CNN reports, “mutilated and booby-trapped”: The bodies also had…
Associated Press story here…Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, has been killed in an airstrike, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. It was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi and seven aides were killed Wednesday evening in a remote area 30…