March 16, 2013 When Everyone Agreed About Iraq For years before the war, a bipartisan consensus thought Saddam possessed WMD. By STEPHEN F. KNOTT Mr. Knott, a professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College, is the author of “Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and
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January 24, 2013 Chuck Hagel’s Unsettling History A senator on his doubts about the nominee’s judgment regarding Iran, missile defense and much else. By JOHN BARRASSO EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: On the issue of nuclear weapons, the candidate for U.S. secretary of defense actually seems more focused on eliminating American nuclear arms than eliminating
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January 13, 2013 The Struggle for the Fertile Crescent Syria’s sectarian civil war has upended the political equation across the region, from Baghdad to Lebanon. By FOUAD AJAMI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Perhaps things would not be as they are if the Obama administration had opted for a residual U.S. presence in Iraq that
August 11, 2012 Hillary and the Hollowness of ‘People- to-People’ Diplomacy Nearly a million miles in the air. And U.S. power isdiminished. By FOUAD AJAMI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Yet the passivity of this secretary of state is unprecedented. Mrs. Clinton left no mark on the decision to liquidate the American presence in Iraq—the
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PAUL RYAN SPEAKING AT THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY IN THE SUMMER OF 2011 – LIFTING THE DEBT, REJECTING DECLINE AND SECURING AMERICA’S LEADERSHIP
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June 19, 2012 A Leaderless World Signs of disorder grow as American influence recedes. Not so long ago much of the world griped about an America that was too assertive, a “hyperpower” that attempted to lead with too little deference to the desires of those attending the G-20 meeting today in Mexico. Well, congratulations. A
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May 24, 2012, Tom Manion: Why They Serve—’If Not Me, Then Who?’ After more than a decade of war, remarkable men and women are still stepping forward. By TOM MANION Col. Manion, USMCR (Ret.), is on the board of the Travis Manion Foundation, which assists veterans and the families of the fallen I served in
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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