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Highlights and recommended reviews of Obama’s Afghanistan speech

I have recently reported on what the experts were saying about the War in Afghanistan (see series of notes here). Today, we bring you a few links and excerpts from commentators following President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday announcing his plans for sending more troops.

Obama’s U.N. speech, Afghanistan, and 91 years ago today

Barack Obama’s first speech to the United Nations this week wasn’t exactly greeted by plaudits from the thinkingpolitical right. The Heritage Foundation’s Foundry Blog had this to say Thursday morning:

Reports from the field: Early critiques of President Obama

A Wall Street Journal editorial opened with a bang again yesterday as it reported an Obama claim followed by the paper’s total refutation of that claim. In “Dukes of Moral Hazard, Re-default rates are 55%…

Legacies of Presidents Lincoln, Reagan, and Obama

The three men with Illinois connections who made it to the White House were born in 1961, 1911, and 1809 – representing a century and a half of American history.

Explaining the petty and hostile attacks on Sarah Palin

The attacks on Sarah Palin last week by anonymous McCain staffers merely provided the opportunity for more Americans to learn that many of the people who work in Republican campaign politics are less than honorable and clearly incompetent. Anyone wondering how the political party with the better ideas keeps failing to advance those ideas needs to look no further than the quality of the GOP political personnel.

Obama isn’t ready—you can see it in his face

First I’d like someone to explain to me why Barack Obama’s head was at an angle the entire time he was answering questions from Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church event this past Saturday….

What Republican leadership should look and sound like

For Republicans nationally and especially for those of us who call Illinois home it is good to recall what leadership looks like. Videos of President Ronald Reagan serve that purpose nicely. A more updated…

D-Day + 64 years

Visiting places of incredible bravery, sacrifice, and seeing the final resting place of so many thousands of Americans is a powerful experience. Walking on Omaha Beach, between the white marble crosses at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, or in a Belgian forest just outside Bastogne brings an incredible sense of awe – even for someone who has never had a problem feeling pride in his country.

The GOP “branding” fight nationally and in Illinois

A lot of commentary has filled the new and old media during the past couple of weeks about the latest chapter in the Republican Party’s “crisis” that caused the loss of their Congressional majority…

The new learning that failed

By Victor Davis Hanson: On the value of classical learning.

Greek learning and American decline

From Hellenic Antidote: Victor Davis Hanson was annoyed by an article from French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner that America’s “magic has worn off.”

Notes on the War in Iraq: The good news cannot be ignored

September and October 2007 were not good months for those who believe the people in the Middle East are barbarians who should be left to their own devices. In other words, they believe that the war can’t be won, and the nation of Iraq will never be anything other than a breeding ground for people who wish to rule through bloodshed and terror.