If you haven't read the latest from Victor Davis Hanson over at National Review Online, then you should remedy the situation promptly. Europeans: But don't simply scoff; for us the idea that you would spend $87 billion on fighting in Iraq while your own people don't have health care is preposterous. Dumb American: But was […]
Libya has agreed to allow international inspectors to verify and dismantle that country's WMDs. President Bush and British PM Tony Blair had been negotiating with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for about nine months. If you take a look at the calendar, you'll find that the trilateral talks (note that Gadhafi approached the U.S. and U.K. […]
Bush is standing by his decision on barring certain "allies" from being primary contractors rebuilding a country they didn't think was important enough to liberate from a brutal tyrant. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder apparently made some comments that "international law must apply to awarding of contracts." International law? International law dictates how the American taxpayers […]
Companies from France and Germany, among other countries, are being excluded from competition for contracts to rebuild Iraq. Of course, apologists for the Axis of Weasels are decrying the move as counterproductive. Please, can someone explain to me using something I'd like to call "logic" why we should award contracts (after all, much of this […]
The intelligentsia on the left have often had their fun with gaffes by Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush. It appears as though Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean may give the right a similar opportunity for hilarity. Many have already pointed out Dean's repeated referrals to the Soviet Union as […]
While I don't agree with everything in it, today's New York Times has a surprisingly reasonable editorial calling on Democrats to take a position on American foreign policy post-9/11 that is something more substantive than: Bush is wrong. The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of preventive war. […]
Presidential hopeful and AWOL legislator Dick Gephardt appeared on Fox News Sunday and demonstrated unequivocally that he should never set foot anywhere near the White House. In the first segment of the show, Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that the French would like to have a solid date for turning over complete control of […]
Frederick Forsyth has a good article on why the doctrine of pre-emptive war has become necessary in the wake of 9/11. Until the mid-1990s, terrorists always wanted something. The IRA wanted a united Ireland, the ETA wanted a separate Basque state, the PFLP wanted a Palestinian state and the extirpation of Israel, the Tamil Tigers […]
Secretary of State Colin Powell made appearances on both "Meet the Press" and "This Week." On both shows, Powell dismissed the fact that the last prime minister, and likely the next prime minister, of the Palestinian Authority was handpicked by Yasser Arafat -- a man Powell said had repeatedly demonstrated that he was not interested […]
Just got done watching Tony Snow's interview on "Fox News Sunday" with Michigan Democrat Senator Carl Levin. Levin spent much of the interview pushing for the Bush administration to do whatever it takes to get the U.N. to pass a new resolution so we can get "international support" (read: Germany and France and for some […]