The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has a pretty good article on the Democrats and their less-than-wise opposition to the Colombia free trade pact. I encourage you to read it. However, it was this little slam at the end that got my blood pressure up a bit. One of President Bush’s most costly actions was […]
Last week, the U.S. State Department removed China from its list of the world's worst human-rights abusers. This week, China's killing Tibetans in a crackdown on protests reminsicent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. And the International Olympic Committee thought having China host the Olympics was a good idea?
Comedian Sinbad, a Barack Obama supporter, is challenging Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience -- because he has the exact same experience. Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone […]
Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. Like his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama has promised to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement after six months if it isn't renegotiated to his liking should he be elected president. The problem is that Obama has had his senior economic adviser, Austin Goolsbee, telling […]
In Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' Democratic response to the presidents State of the Union address, she made the following claim: On foreign policy, Sebelius said that five years of the war in Iraq have "cost us dearly -- in lives lost; in thousands of wounded warriors whose futures may never be the same; in challenges […]
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's selling points has been that she has experience in the White House. Let's ignore for the next several months that she never held a security clearance while she was First Lady and that she was never in the room when foreign policy decisions were being made. In the wake of […]
In the wake of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the one thing that isn't needed in that country is more chaos. As distasteful as the rule of Pervez Musharraf is to democracy, it would be far worse for that nuclear-armed nation to plunge into a maelstrom that could end with radical […]
I finally got around to reading presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's essay in Foreign Affairs a couple days back, and I must confess that there's enough miss in his hit-and-miss outline that he sounds more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan. In a New York Times profile last week, Huckabee said that his thinking on foreign […]
You'd think that five years after the wholesale failure of U.S. intelligence agencies (and those of the rest of the world) to determine the state of Iraq's WMD programs that their guesstimates would be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm not sure that's what is happening. Rand Beers, who resigned from Bush's National […]
Also over at The Washington Post, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has a post curiously entitled "Kucinich Is Right." Dennis Kucinich called his party's bluff. If Democrats believe half of the things they say about the Bush administration, then they ought to impeach both Bush and Cheney. I don't believe that Bush and Cheney "lied us […]