Foreign Affairs
Last week, Projo columnist Bob Kerr wrote about the disproportionate attention given to journalists killed or wounded in the war zone in Iraq. His point is not that journalists receive too much attention, but that regular soldiers receive too little…A television news crew gets hit by a car bomb. And the war in Iraq gets…
Today’s Washington Times had an article entitled Kirkpatrick hit liberals for blaming America first, in which she was quoted as saying: “I worked very hard on that Dallas speech, and I believe the charges I made were defensible and that I could document them,” Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 79, says as she sorts through old manuscripts in…
These are the findings of Retired General Barry McCaffrey with respect to America’s immediate objectives in Iraq. General McCaffrey toured Iraq between April 13 and April 20. 1. There has been substantial progress in building an effective Iraqi army, though problems with a lack of equipment and a lack of professionalism still need to be…
Retired General Barry McCaffrey, now an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at the United States Military Academy, has toured Iraq several times since 2003. General McCaffrey was an early critic of the administration’s war plan and is not known to be a member of the “Donald Rumsfeld Fan Club”. According to the Belmont Club blog…MSNBC…
Charles Krauthammer has written an important editorial entitled Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World: What’s at stake in the dispute over Iranian nukes? Ultimately, human survival in which he says: Like many physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman could not get the Bomb out of his mind after the war. “I would see…
Since Anchor Rising is primarily a blog about Rhode Island, we don’t talk about the War in Iraq much. But I’m curious as to how Rhode Island conservatives view the situation three years out. So whether you’re a neocon, a paleocon, a realist or a “to-hell-with-them-hawk,” please comment on whether or not your outlook on…
Andrew’s two posts (here, here) about Senator Jack Reed’s recent foreign policy speech made me recall former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jean Kirkpatrick’s speech at the 1984 Republican Convention: This is the first Republican Convention I have ever attended. I am grateful that you should invite me, a lifelong Democrat… I want…
Jonah Goldberg offers these words on the destruction of the Askariya mosque, a sacred Shiite mosque in Iraq: But where are the protests in London and Denmark and Pakistan (other than the anti-American ones) denouncing the destruction of the shrine in Iraq? You judge people by what they do. Is blowing up Mosques and Holy…
Short version of the Iraqi elections… High turnout, including in the Sunni areas. Lots of people celebrating, literally, their right to vote. Pajamas Media has a roundup including on-the-ground reporting from bloggers who are there.
While the ProJo Editorial board thinks Senators Reed and Chafee are on “safe,” though borderline, foreign policy ground in trying to obtain discounted heating oil from the state-operated oil company of Venezuala, Citgo, they do offer some familiar sounding warnings: A close ally of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, Mr. Chavez famously declared that the U.S.…