Good for President Obama for seeking congressional authorization for a strike on Syria. Among other things, it will give the administration more time to come up with a coherent strategy that has a plausible chance of advancing American interests. The current strategy of focusing outrage on Syrian . . . . Continue Reading »
I think Ramesh Ponnuru has it right. Maybe the Obama administration has a plan to use military force in a decisive way, but they haven’t made the case for a large and sustained military operation if it comes to that. A military attack that is not decisive opens the possibility that the . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought John Kerry did a beautiful job, a presidential job, trying to convince the American people and the world that we ought to go to war against Syria. Really brilliant, save one problem, that we would be siding with Al Qaeda in the conflict. Or rather, not siding with them as much . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Christie’s attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling “esoteric” libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face “the widows and the orphans” of 9/11 -reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It . . . . Continue Reading »
I seem to be conflicted about the Edward Snowden case. I have been trying to figure out how to write about it for many days. Today, I decided to write about how and why I seem to be conflicted, hoping to elicit responses that help me figure out the national dilemma on this topic. . . . . Continue Reading »
About Pete’s take on the Benghazi matter : I think is fairly clear in testimony that the Obama Administration did lie, did cover-up what had happened, and was totally disingenuous about the whole thing. Judgement call? It was a judgement call and about international . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism. Living in freedom means living with risk. It means accepting danger. The only way . . . . Continue Reading »
I hope you will all have seen the news breaking this morning prior to the meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. I first saw it on Powerline, in a piece by John Hinderaker. Now, Paul Mirengoff of that site has a piece about leaking classified briefing . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been assuming you will all have seen the video, “Dishonorable Disclosures” . It was mentioned in the WSJ on their Washington Wire blog about a month ago. It turned up in an email several days ago and since no one has mentioned it, I decided to share it while I rant . . . . Continue Reading »
I find this Michael Chabon op-ed , written in the wake of Israel’s interception of the Gaza flotilla, to be remarkable, and not in a good way. A few extremely cleverly oblique references to God, while the figure who identifies that God rather than merely naming him — guess who? — . . . . Continue Reading »
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