It's been 10 years since the genocide in Rwanda killed hundreds of thousands of people. The U.N. was there, supposedly to keep the peace, but read about what they let happen. In the first days of the 100-day genocide that left an estimated 800,000 people dead, an armored convoy of Belgian troops pulled up to […]
There are two more must-read articles on the U.N. Oil-for-Palaces program. First, John O'Sullivan in National Review Online: We should not be altogether surprised at the corruption revealed here. Multi-national organizations like the U.N. and the European Union are regularly plagued by financial scandals because they bring together three incentives for dishonesty: large sums of […]
I've waited to comment on the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners for some of the overheated rhetoric to die down. Some of what happened was wrong -- certainly everything detailed in the now-ubiquitous photographs falls under that category -- but it is not torture. The people who did these things will be punished. At last count, […]
He's avoided using the term recently, but Sen. John Kerry took to calling U.S. allies in Iraq part of a "fraudulent coalition." He never defined what a "genuine coalition" would look like, though one might assume it would be required to include France, Germany and Belgium. Despite Kerry and his Democrat allies' disdain for them, […]
One of my colleagues at the Union-Tribune told me he was recently asked by someone if I had a blog. He responded that I did. He was then asked: "Is he (that would be me) conservative?" My colleague's response: "He makes Hannity look like Hillary." Not quite accurate, but I did bust out laughing.