Foreign Affairs
Earlier today, I described Congressman Jack Murtha’s plan for “redeploying” troops out of Iraq as appeasement. I explain why Congressman Murtha’s approach is deeply flawed in my latest TechCentralStation article.
President Bush gave another speech on our progress in Iraq and our own Senator Jack Reed (again) offered the Democrat response. Senator Reed referred to the speech like this: “Another missed opportunity to be candid with the American public,” Reed tagged Mr. Bush’s speech. During a news conference in the Capitol, Reed said, “The American…
With H/T to Power Line, Dafydd ab Hugh writes: Paul over at Power Line poses a fascinating question — in subtext — in a recent post: How does the CIA protect its turf so well? Its skill in the art of the leak must play a major role. For one thing, this skill helps explain…
This sentence in Andrew’s previous post captures something that has been eating away at my confidence that September 11, 2001, seared a new clarity into the thinking of the American people: … toothless is not how our enemies see us today; toothless is how they saw us leading up to September 11. A series of…
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Rod Dreher’s latest addition to the conservative-ire-at-Bush line of commentaries has made an appearance on Anchor Rising, so I thought I’d mention that I’ve contemplated part of it further in a post over on Dust in the Light: Dreher, it seemed to me, began to drift not long after he made the leap from displaced…
A Wall Street Journal editorial today says this: Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation took nearly two years, sent a reporter to jail, cost millions of dollars, and preoccupied some of the White House’s senior officials. The fruit it has now borne is the five-count indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff–not for…
We all have vivid memories of where we were on September 11, 2001. On that fateful morning, my wife was in surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and I was sitting in the waiting room when the morning television programs switched to viewing the World Trade Center buildings with the then-unconfirmed story that a plane had…
It is impossible to know right now what is true in the Able Danger story. With that in mind, Power Line has this interesting posting that highlights potential issues we should keep in mind as we watch events unfold on this story. The China story is not a new one; here is a previous posting,…
At TechCentralStation, I have an article giving some background on how the death of Southern Sudan’s long-time leader John Garang is likely to effect the situation there.
