Nick Turse Nick Turse is a historian, essayist, and investigative journalist and the associate editor of TomDispatch.com Obama’s scramble for Africa US military operations on the continent have accelerated far beyond the more limited actions of the Bush years. Last Modified: 15 Jul 2012 More than 2,000 US military personnel are stationed at base Camp […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Liberalism, Manic & Depressive William Kristol October 22, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 06 In the first presidential debate of 2012, we saw, up close and personal, what Harvey Mansfield called in last week’s issue the ennui of Barack Obama. Obama’s ennui is related to his dislike for the
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Barack Obama: Slacker-in-Chief By Deroy Murdock September 28, 2012 12:00 A.M. Concerning the fun parts of his job, Barack Obama resembles the Energizer Bunny. If there are crowds to wow, entertainers to schmooze, or donors to pitch, Obama is Johnny on the Spot. Too bad
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October 1, 2012 Mitt Romney: A New Course for the Middle East Restore the three sinews of American influence: our economic strength, our military strength and the strength of our values. By MITT ROMNEY Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered.
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Go large, Mitt By Charles Krauthammer, Published: September 27 In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country’s condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.) Four years later, mid-September 2012, the
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September 12, 2012 The New World Disorder As the U.S. retreats, bad actors begin to fill the vacuum. By their nature, foreign policy problems often have a long fuse. The successes of one Administration (Truman, Reagan) sometimes don’t pay off for years (Bush 41), while dangers can simmer until they suddenly explode (al Qaeda). The
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July 17, 2012 Stephens: The Hillary Myth Can anyone name an achievement to justify the adulation of our secretary of state? By BRET STEPHENS Suddenly we’re supposed to believe that Hillary Clinton is a great secretary of state. Eric Schmidt of Google calls her “the most significant secretary of state since Dean Acheson.” A
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May 18, 2012 We do not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the Middle East or elsewhere. We only get to choose what side we are on. By GEORGE W. BUSH These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom. In the Arab Spring, we have seen the broadest
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