The Administration’s Tin Ear
Was there ever an administration that cared so much how it sounded to itself, but so little how it sounded to the American people? The President’s tin ear was on full display as he tried to reassure the public about…
Was there ever an administration that cared so much how it sounded to itself, but so little how it sounded to the American people? The President’s tin ear was on full display as he tried to reassure the public about…
The Washington Post intoned on the front page, “Poll Finds Guarded Optimism on Obama’s Afghanistan Plan.” What plan? Plumbing the article, it turns out that support for the President on the issue has “plummeted” since the summer; more than half…
On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 abolishing segregation in the armed forces and ordering, “there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or…
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank division) has announced that he will not run in the Palestinian election currently scheduled for January 2010. He blames Israeli “intransigence” on the issue of houses for Jewish people east of…
Two early thoughts about the murderous rampage at Ft. Hood:
The Francop, an Antigua-flagged freighter, carried nearly 60 tons of arms and explosives from Iran, apparently destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon. It sailed in violation of UN resolutions at both ends-Iran is forbidden to export arms and Hezbollah is forbidden…
The American Jewish community was way out in front on Darfur-calling it what it was, demanding that the U.S. government respond, working up public outrage, and raising money for relief. And we were good at it-the African Union provided forces…
The July 2008 indictment of Sudan’s Omar Bashir by the International Criminal Court includes three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. He is accused of running the campaign in Darfur that killed (using the…
The vote against Israel in the so-called UN Human Rights Commission was, of course, a travesty. Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Ukraine and the United States upheld their own honor (our honor) more than Israel’s, but it isn’t nearly enough to…
Can you yell, “Stop the presses!” in the computer age? We were going to interrupt our train of thought on Afghanistan and the Taliban to consider how Turkey’s cancellation of a longstanding NATO exercise because of Israeli participation should have…