Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Big Squeeze The Obama administration’s defense budget portends strategic decline. BY Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly June 7, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 36 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: In his speech, Gates stated that the U.S. military has more than 3,200 tactical combat aircraft–an impressive number. What he did […]
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Missing: a good repairman June 18, 2010 by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Barack Obama doesn’t do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing,
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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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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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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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JUNE 7, 2010 Pelosi’s Loss Could Be Obama’s Gain A pivot to the center (and re-election) would be easier without the House speaker. By FRED BARNES In Washington these days, President Obama is rumored to be hoping Republicans capture the House of Representatives in the midterm election in November. There’s no evidence for this speculation,
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JUNE 12, 2010 The shrinking number of loyalists around the Ayatollah Khamenei are shaken by their failure to break the will of the opposition. By MICHAEL LEDEEN Today is the first anniversary of the fraudulent election that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, igniting huge demonstrations all over Iran. At the time, very few outside
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Arrogance in the Executive What the oil spill has revealed about the Obama presidency. BY Andrew B. Wilson June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 Real leadership means never having to say you’re the boss. There is no surer sign of weakness and insecurity than the repeated assertion of your own power
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JUNE 9, 2010 The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a
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The American Spectator The Obama Watch The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama By Peter Ferrara on 6.2.10 @ 6:09AM Months ago, I predicted in this column that President Obama would so discredit himself in office that he wouldn’t even be on the ballot in 2012, let alone have a prayer of being reelected. Like President
