The Tragedy of Inaction
From Guy Burnett at City Journal: “Russia, my lords and gentlemen, is the decisive factor in the history of the world at the present time,” observed Britain’s then-Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill…
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Ending of the movie “Not Without My Daughter”
I’m not surprised someone finally put this one YouTube. This entire made for TV movie from 1991 is difficult to watch. It’s based on a true story and it serves as a terrific reminder…
Read MoreHoly Land Conflict: No Peace Among Wolves
By Matt Barber: At times, complicated issues are most clearly understood in simple terms. Speaking before the Knesset in 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu captured, in two brief sentences, that which lies at the heart of the ongoing, centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict: “The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms, there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms, there would be no more war.”
Read MoreBenghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief
As the almost-always-silly Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama, the Las Vegas Review-Journal didn’t—here’s an excerpt: This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy – though a more careful…
Read MoreBenghazi: Don’t Fall for the Misdirection
So much is being written about this (outside of the Old Media of course) and it’s just awful to learn about. From National Review: For the Washington Post, David Ignatius has obtained a CIA…
Read MoreThe Risks of Ignoring Strategic Insolvency
From the Center for Strategic and International Studies: A moment has arrived when a great power with global responsibilities is having a crisis of confidence. Its economy has grown sluggish and it is being…
Read MoreThe 1920s were a decade to admire
From Amity Shlaes: ‘When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies…
Read MoreRomney ad: Apology Tour
Regardless, this was a great line and Obama knew it… http://youtu.be/_rE3NZr_oMo
Read MoreRomney Stumbles on Foreign Policy
Here’s a negative assessment from Daniel Pipes at National Review: Barack Obama has a weak record in the Middle East, but one would not learn this from the debate, in which Mitt Romney praised…
Read MoreVideo: Krauthammer on Romney’s ‘unequivocal’ win: ‘Romney went large — Obama went very, very small’
Clearly the most positive assessment of the debate was from Charles Krauthammer…
Read MoreThe Rape and Murder of Pakistan’s Christian Children
Here’s more about the “religion of peace” from the Middle East Forum: The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly burning pages…
Read MoreThe Libya Lie: It’s not just the blame-the-video narrative, the whole Libyan success story is false
From Victor Davis Hanson: Almost everything we have been told about Libya over the last two years is untrue. A free Libya was supposed to be proof of President Obama’s enlightened “reset” Middle East…
Read MoreEgypt’s Christians: Distraught and Displaced
About that “Arab Spring”…from Middle East Forum: Last week Reuters reported that “Most Christians living near Egypt’s border with Israel [in the town of Rafah in Sinai] are fleeing their homes after Islamist militants…
Read MoreThere Was No Protest, Only a Terrorist Attack, in Libya
Also from the Heritage Foundation: The Obama Administration’s story on the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens has changed yet again. In advance of a hearing on diplomatic security in the House Oversight and…
Read MoreHow Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Failing
A good summary from the Heritage Foundation: Libya. Egypt. Syria. Iran. Russia. China. America’s relations with the world aren’t looking too good. President Obama said that in his Administration, America would reach out to…
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