Since the September issue, the U. S. has backed away from a strike on Syria in favor of the Russian proposal for the disposal of all of its chemical weapons. This in effect means no penalty of Bashar Asaad for his deliberate murder of civilians and he survives. Now Russia and Iran collaborate for hegemony […]
The Syria Decision
The most incredible fiasco in modern foreign policy management and the strangest and most blatant abdication of a U. S. Commander in Chief in American history has now come down to a monumental gamble on the willingness of a fickle Congress to provide the political cover to prevent a President from vacating the role of […]
Putin Capitalizes on the Obama Retreat
In the Wall Street Journal, Hoover Institution Fellow Josef Joffe asks: why did Vladimir Putin thumb his nose at the U. S. in the Snowden affair? The answer is pretty easy–because he knew he could get away with it. And why? Well, the old KGB veteran looked at the Obama trend line since January 2009: […]
Syria: The Analogy with Spain
As the death toll in Syria’s civil war approaches 50,000 and the almost certainty that Bashar Assad will use chemical weapons and Scud missiles if necessary to keep himself and the Alawite sect in power, the conflict has become not only a religious war, but also has taken on some of the characteristics of a […]
Team Obama’s Middle East Mess
We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere. We only get to choose what side we are on.–George W. Bush in The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2012 from a speech to the Bush Institute at SMU. The Bush Doctrine has become a […]
China Watch Update
In a January issue, the lead article of The Economist was “The Rise of State Capitalism”, featuring China as its leading example, of course, with comparisons with the recent problems in the world’s free-market systems suggesting that “the era of free-market triumphalism has come to a juddering halt”. But in all objectivity, after careful analysis, […]
An Obama Turn on Iran?
The media watchdogs are twittering with commentary about President Obama’s new hawkish turn of rhetoric on the Iranian nuclear weapons issue. Is this for real? With him, how can we ever know? You can be assured of one thing–Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dead serious when he says “I will never let my people live […]
Fool Me Three Times?
There is an old saying: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Well, what happens the third time? That’s where we are with North Korea. In fact, they have now fooled three U. S. administrations, dating back to the Agreed Framework of 1994 negotiated by Jimmy Carter for Bill Clinton. […]
More Political Retreat
As if it wasn’t pretty obvious with the premature troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, the latest plans announced by the Obama administration for a significantly smaller military send two very distinct messages: (1) a crass political choice to allow the entitlement regime to continue to crowd out defense spending and avoid a confrontation with […]
Political Retreat
We are witnessing a slow, steady retreat from victory in the Middle East and, I fear, a prelude to significantly more conflict down the road and the unfortunate loss of more American lives. Why? Because of the political imperative of troop withdrawals to accommodate the political timeline of the Obama administration. Is there another possible […]
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