I haven’t yet completely read former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s book, The Journey, but have read enough reviews,  excerpts, and interviews to be impressed that he represents the best of the special Anglo-American relationship that has been so important to the world for the past century.  Margaret Thatcher he isn’t, but he is about […]

In September 2002, I wrote this:  ” Saddam Hussein must go. Now. Not after re-instituting United Nations arms inspections (a red herring); not after we prove to an international court of world opinion that he is harboring weapons of mass destruction; not after we or one of our allies has been attacked again; and not […]

I will have more on the European financial crisis in a future edition, but I couldn’t pass up the following quote from a recent article by George Will: “The EU has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament no one other than its members […]

The Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama is John Brennan, who first came to my attention in the aftermath of the Ft. Hood shootings and the almost successful Christmas bombing of an airliner in Detroit.  Here is a man who is on the front lines of a war that has been underway in its […]

The details on the confrontation between Israeli commandos and a flotilla of Turkish  “humanitarian” aid ships bound for Gaza is still being sifted as I write, and there will be other such incidents as the provocations continue.  As usual, Israel will bear the large majority of the brunt of the public outrage from all the […]

This is more dreamworld.  We won the Cold War by being willing to think the unthinkable.  The Soviets were not stupid and they understood cost/benefit analysis.  They also knew that U. S. nuclear retaliation in response to something dumb on their part was a very real probability under every American President since Truman.  Was this […]

It’s difficult to imagine what rational processes, if any, are being pursued by the Obama administration in developing its strategy for dealing with the nuclear weapons threat posed by Iran, not to mention the growing list of acts of war that have already been perpetrated against the United States by that regime over the past […]

At the dawn of the Obama administration, the mission of U. S.-Russian relations was characterized by “reset”, even to the point of a silly reset button visual aid presented to Russian leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  What reset means to the Russians was described by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as “to move beyond […]

Recently I have indicated a number of areas of foreign and defense policy in which the legacy of the administration of George W. Bush continues to thrive, despite the campaign promises of Barack Obama to roll back much of it.  One of the best examples is in Iraq, where we have been presented with the […]

You’ll never hear it from his successor, but George W. Bush is piling up a list of items that provide considerable vindication of most of the elements of his foreign policy, including the hated Bush Doctrine. In a recent Townhall article Larry Elder credits his overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq for encouraging and emboldening […]