Get ready for this—in spite of the fact that the U. S. is not a signatory, the International Criminal Court is claiming jurisdiction over American soldiers in Afghanistan and intends to “end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community”, according to the ICC web site. Of course, […]
Another Bailout
This bailout was of a different kind, and potentially much more serious. In meeting with Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s representatives in Geneva, the U. S. and other major powers allowed his regime a legitimacy and rehabilitation that no amount of imagination could have perceived following the fraudulent June elections. President Obama characterized the talks as […]
The War of Necessity
“This is not a war of choice; this is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9-11 are plotting to do so again…………..So this is not only a war worth fighting; this is fundamental to the defense of our people.”–President Barack Obama, speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, August 17, 2009. Well, […]
A Matter of Time in Iran
One gets the intuitive feeling that “the other shoe will drop” in Iran following the unrest caused by the fraudulent election results last June. Among other things, our standing offer to talk now begs the question, with whom? Clearly, the Ahmadinejad regime has been severely wounded and the world has been exposed to the lack […]
A Double Standard for “Meddling”
It seems that President Obama has difficulty knowing when to “meddle” in the domestic affairs of both friends and enemies. As a result, he has been badly wrong twice lately in ways that will not be helpful to our interests or to the people of the particular countries. In Iran, he demurred for most of a […]
Obama in Cairo
The “amen corner” has already spoken–President Obama has delivered another masterpiece in Egypt and the relationship between the U. S. and the Muslim world will never be the same. Well, let’s take a deep breath and reflect on it in more depth. To his credit, unlike the first two legs of his international tour in Europe […]
Where is the Apology?
After 55 years, we can finally close the case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed as Communist spies in 1953, but whose guilt has been consistently denied by fellow travelers on the left in this country, in spite of the evidence presented then as well as condemning revelations from KGB files released upon the […]
Cold War Redux?
In his 1835 classic, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville was prescient in his characterization of the Russians and the Americans: “The American struggles against the obstacles which nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russians are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms. The […]
The Indispensable Man
Stephen Hayes wrote a great piece on Dick Cheney recently in the Wall Street Journal, and I couldn’t help but be struck by the comparison with the shallowness of what passes as serious political discussion in, for example, the “debates” among the presidential candidates, particularly Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton. Further to my “questions for […]
The Real War Front
As shameful as it is to admit, the real front in the war we now fight is not in Iraq, but is inside the Beltway. It is incredible to contemplate the comments by a Republican U. S. Senator that “the chances for success are limited”, not by our prospects on the battlefield, but by the […]
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