Destroy OPEC
I don’t know that I agree with Thomas W. Evans that litigation is preferable to military force, but I think he’s perfectly right that the elimination of the OPEC oil cartel represents a vital US...
View ArticleIt’s Not Only Palin
David From explains that Americans are still concerned about a president’s ability to protect the United States in a dangerous world, and that the public has not failed to recognize the democtrats’...
View ArticleKissinger Rejects Obama’s Claimed Agreement
Watchers of last night’s debate were bound to wonder if Henry Kissinger really told Barack Obama he agreed with him on presidential meetings held without preconditions with leaders of the world’s most...
View ArticlePundits Debate Elvish Foreign Policy: Suicide at the Council of Elrond
Red State Pundits argue whether Elrond Half-Elven started an unnecessary war which precipitated the dwindling away and passage to the West of his own people. Besides, no One Ring was ever found when...
View ArticleObama’s Fatal Dilemma
It’s sad that we had to lose this year, but conservatives and Republicans can console themselves with Barack Obama’s unhappy prospects based upon the irreconcilable dilemma facing his presidency. If he...
View ArticleObama’s Great Foreign Policy Shift
The New York Times announces the intended shift in President-Elect Obama’s future foreign policy resources from arms to Danegeld, but also hints that, Obama being democrat, he’ll probably just spend a...
View ArticleThe Left’s Foreign Policy Ambush
Richard Perle evaluates the Bush record in foreign policy (to the limited degree that Bush was allowed by the federal bureaucracy to have a say in the matter) and attacks the left’s false narrative of...
View Article“A More Aggressive Carterism”
Presidents like to use catch phrases to identify their domestic and their foreign policies. Teddy Roosevelt had the Square Deal and Big Stick. Franklin Roosevelt had the New Deal and the Good Neighbor...
View ArticleA Lesson From the Farm
Barack Obama reminds Victor Davis Hanson of his youthful self. Obama reminds me a little of myself–at 26. I had left the farm for 9 years to get a BA in classics, PhD in classical philology, and live...
View Article“A Clinical Narcissist”
Martin Peretz, at New Republic, is pessimistic about the future of the politics of personal charisma. If Obama could not get Chicago over the finish line in Copenhagen, which was a test only of his...
View Article“Politics Before Security”
Last night, Dick Cheney gave a speech at the Center for Security Policy in which he surveyed the Obama Administration’s short and dismal foreign record. He condemned the cancellation of the missile...
View ArticleObama’s Chicago Way Stops at the Water’s Edge
Mark Steyn discusses the Obama-style of presidential leadership: Chicago tough on domestic media opponents, boot-licking to foreign adversaries. If you’re going to attack the press, you need a...
View ArticleObama Fails at Diplomacy
You thought Obama’s economic policies have become unpopular domestically? Peter Wehner thinks the Chosen One is proving an even bigger disaster in foreign relations. The overseas reviews for President...
View ArticleThe Goal of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Can it be accidental that Obama persists in bowing to foreign leaders like China’s President Hu Jintao? Victor Davis Hanson can see no rational direction to Barack Obama’s foreign policy and bitterly...
View ArticleThe Emperor Has No Strategy
Much like the Emperor in the fairy tale who had no clothes, Barack Obama has received a wake-up call in the form of a secret memo from his own Secretary of Defense warning that his administration has...
View ArticleIsn’t It Awful About the US Being the Dominant Military Superpower?
These kinds of partisan displays of particularist chauvinism always offend enlightened people. FoxNews points out a not-even-Freudian lapse in Barack Obama’s recent remarks. To a member in good...
View ArticleA House Divided Felt Round the World
Rep. Barney F. Bourbon Richard Fernandez identifies the international aspects of the thesis of Angelo Codevilla’s recent important essay. Niall Ferguson is touring Australia warning that the end of...
View ArticleSunday, August 1, 2010
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia announced their intention to block Blackberry reception in response to Research In Motion (RIM)’s failure to facilitate government monitoring of transmissions....
View ArticleTunisia, Then Egypt, Then?
Richard Fernandez thinks that a string of Middle Eastern dominoes are teetering and pictures just how bad the US economy is going to look if they all should happen to fall. The left-wing Israeli...
View ArticlePostmodern Policy and Premodern Chaos
The key text guiding European and American policy today is the British diplomatist Robert Cooper‘s The Postmodern State and the World Order, a thoughtful and concise (merely 20 pages) monograph...
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