Lest our comments on the “wings” of terrorist organizations be misconstrued, let us say outright that it was not an endorsement of either counterinsurgency or counterterrorism as a policy for Afghanistan. It was simply a warning that some organizations-Hamas, Fatah,…
[The Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to President Obama because he can visualize a world without nuclear weapons -or because he isn’t President Bush. Big deal. Since they gave it to Yasser Arafat, it hasn’t been worth “a bucket…
According to Congressional travel records, House and Senate members spent 6,910 days on “official travel” overseas in the first three-quarters of 2009, spending an estimated $9.4 million. They hit the obvious-Iraq and Afghanistan-but also those bastions of American security concern…
Tomorrow, we’re going to “talk” to Iran – for the umpteenth time in the 30 years of the mullocracy, we’re going to “talk” to them. Yawn.
So, Iran’s “secret” second uranium enrichment plant isn’t secret any more and the United States, Britain and France “demand” that Iran allow IAEA inspectors to visit. President Obama said, “It is time for Iran to act immediately to restore the…
President Obama’s maiden speech at the UN wasn’t bad, though it was in places pedestrian and pedantic. There was an awful lot of “I did,” “I was inaugurated,” “I announced,” “I appointed,” “I prohibited…torture.” (Mr. President, it was illegal when…
Assume for the moment that President Obama’s sea-based interceptor plan adequately addresses the threat posed to Europe by Iran. Further assume that Secretary Gates’ shift from selling his former President’s proposal to selling his current President’s proposal represents an honest…
The Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict The title of the so-called “Goldstone Report” tells you what the UN “fact finders” were looking for. They couldn’t completely ignore the years of increasingly long-range and…
In the old days, countries such as Honduras were pejoratively called “banana republics” because of their reliance on single a crop economy and a strong-arm government servile to a small, wealthy elite. Large American companies could buy their strongmen and…
Serve.gov, the official U.S. Government website, proudly proclaims, “Projects in All 50 States Mark First Time 9/11 Will Be Officially Recognized as a National Day of Service and Remembrance.” The official language is really quite lovely: