I would normally respond to this in the comments, but I think this is a probably a good opportunity to lay out where I stand on freedom of the press vs. national security. First, John’s comment: Thank you Mr. Freedom of the Press. Can we also shut down the NYT website? Not many people are […]
A couple of points on the latest round of Wikileaks disclosures: PFC Bradley Manning is apparently the source of most, if not all, of the material Wikileaks has published – including documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that has endangered the lives of civilians who’ve helped U.S. and NATO troops in those countries. Manning […]
A New York jury yesterday acquitted Ahmed Ghailani, an Al Qaeda terrorist who was part of the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. He killed 224 people. The Weekly Standard’s Thomas Joscelyn summarizes the evidence: 1. Ghailani and another al Qaeda operative “purchased the used refrigeration truck converted to a […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met at the White House today for U.S.-sponsored peace talks. You can call me a realist; the talks will fail. The Israelis will be lucky only if these latest round of “talks” don’t result in a third intifada. Why do I say this? Because there […]
It wasn’t unexpected today when President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command of the Afghanistan war effort. The president had every right to do it, and few will fault him for making the decision he did. At the same time, Obama “demoted” Gen. David Petraeus from his perch as head of U.S. Central Command […]
The big foreign policy news of the day was the 12-2 vote in the U.N. Security Council to place sanctions on Iran that are neither “crippling” nor “have bite,” but are instead little more than “annoying flies.” That we’ve waited 18 months to get this would be laughable if the result wasn’t that Iran is […]
American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Rubin offers a scorecard to identify the people we should be talking to.
If you haven’t read this brief post by Victor Davis Hanson over at National Review Online, then you should do so now. A sample: Any initial delight that the world's masses found in a post-national, post-racial, charismatic young American president will begin to be eclipsed by their leaders' realpolitik calculations, both old friends and enemies […]
The previous post got me thinking about what’s going to happen with Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Since President Obama came into office, his official policy has been to reach out to the Iranian regime. The appearance of Iran’s Green movement in the wake of that country’s stolen election caused him some problems. He wanted […]