JUNE 25, 2010 Petraeus’s Opportunity His selection reassures our Afghan allies that the U.S. will not begin substantial troop reductions until the Afghans can handle the insurgents on their own. By MARK MOYAR The firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal has ended the career of an outstanding military leader and the only American to forge a […]
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MARK STEYN – AN UNENGAGED PRESIDENT
Mark Steyn: Learning the rules of an unengaged president By MARK STEYN 2010-06-25 10:43:51 What do Gen. McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic Party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which
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‘WHAT WORLD DOES MR. RUBIN LIVE IN?”
This is a letter to the editor in response to Mr. Rubin’s article on Obama’s Foreign Policy Success. LETTERS JUNE 16, 2010 We Can’t Afford Too Many More Successes Like These Regarding James Rubin’s “Obama’s Foreign Policy Success” (op-ed, June 14): What world does Mr. Rubin live in? He says, the Obama administration “has restored
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LIBERAL SPIN OR VIEWING THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES
This article has to be read to be believed as the author definitely has a liberal bias and champions Obama’s foreign policy. The author is James P. Rubin who was an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration. He is now an adjunct professor at Columbia university’s School of International and Public Affairs. JUNE
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OBAMA’S RELATIONS WITH FRIENDS AND FOES
JUNE 7, 2010 With Friends Like the United States . . . President Obama has emboldened America’s adversaries and unnerved its allies. By ELIOT A. COHEN What do the following have in common: the piling on Israel after the botched interception of the Hamas relief flotilla, the Chinese military telling the U.S. secretary of defense
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TURKEY’S TREACHERY
Updated: Fri., Jun. 4, 2010, 4:37 AM DC’s Turkish denial By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 4:37 AM, June 4, 2010 Posted: 11:31 PM, June 3, 2010 AS the Irish-flagged “aid” ship Rachel Corrie heads for Gaza and Act Two of this made-in-Turkey crisis looms, Washington still can’t bring itself to accept that the entire script
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ISRAEL AND THE GAZA STRIP
JUNE 1, 2010 Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Fiasco By MAX BOOT Israel’s actions in boarding the flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip were entirely justified and perhaps even unavoidable. Unfortunately they turned into a tactical and strategic fiasco that does further damage to the Jewish State’s tattered international reputation. The so-called Gaza flotilla, comprising
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The Relationship Between England and the U.S.
The Weekly Standard What’s So Special? Can this relationship be saved? BY Fred Barnes May 24, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 34 Less than an hour after David Cameron became British prime minister last week, he got a congratulatory phone call from President Obama. That was merely a courtesy. What the president said was not. “As
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Diplomacy is Failing
MAY 24, 2010 Iran: From Hostage Crisis to the Bomb? By WARREN KOZAK We measure their rhetoric, we monitor their actions both within their borders and abroad, and we wonder: “Once they get it, would they use it?” But perhaps we are asking the wrong question when it comes to Iran’s race to get the
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Obama’s New International Order
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Arthur Herman May 24, 2010 4:00 A.M. Obama at West Point: Lessons Unlearned The Alternative to Failed Multinationalism Was Staring Him in the Face. On Saturday, Pres. Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point, which in effect told the thousand or so soon-to-be second
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