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 […]
Know Your Enemy?
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 Gaza Fiasco and Its Backstory
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 […]
Speaking of the New Start With Russia
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 […]
Fantasy World
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 […]
The Russia-U. S. “Reset”
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 […]
More Bush Vindication
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 […]
Bush Gets a Few Things Right
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 […]
Obama at Oslo, West Point, and On Iran and the “Overseas Contingency Operation”
Hold the thoughts of Victor Davis Hanson in mind while contemplating the Obama war (or “unwar”) strategy. In Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, he at least acknowledged that “evil exists in the world” and that there is such a thing as just war, a major concession for him to the obvious consternation of […]
The Western Way of War and Its Future
Victor Davis Hanson has written a brilliant essay in the November 2009 issue of Imprimis, in which he discusses what he calls the Western way of war, how it developed over the history of Western Civilization, its current configuration, and its prognosis. The sum of its evolution to date is that it has been without […]
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