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- We Need a Real Strategy for Afghanistan - November 6, 2009
- Matthew Hoh, a U.S. foreign service officer, resigned recently from his commission in Afghanistan's Zabul province, writing a letter in which he expressed doubts, not...
- Presidential Decision Making - October 30, 2009
- The extreme delay in getting decisions out of Washington that were urgent many months ago, on how to proceed in Afghanistan, was made sickly comic on Monday when...
- The Latest Anti-Israel Stunt - October 21, 2009
- The significance of Israel to the west is out of all proportion to her size and in direct relation to her place, on the front line. The country is unambiguously western,...
- Obama's Political 'Balancing Act' - October 7, 2009
- The American and British top commanders have recently grumbled, or more than grumbled, about indifferent political responses to their requests for more feet and...
- Is Obama Like Gorbachev? - October 3, 2009
- There is nothing new under the sun: and I mean, nothing. It is a point brought home to us with increasing force by the expansion of the Internet. Conceive of an...
- Madmen at the Gates - September 27, 2009
- The advice, "Don't worry about him, he's just crazy," may be sound, provided that the reference is to a man who is in fact neither crazy, nor armed. This thought...
- US Gets Nothing in Return for Missile Decision - September 20, 2009
- What will Russia offer the U.S. in return for the Obama administration's decision to cancel the U.S. missile defence shield installations in the Czech Republic and...
- The Arrogance of Rewriting the Rules - September 13, 2009
- Those who have played hockey will appreciate the need to keep an eye on the puck. And those who watch hockey through television are compelled by the cameras to fixate...
- The Gathering Storm - September 13, 2009
- Today is the eighth anniversary of the day after 9/11. This newspaper being an artifact of modern printing, I am of course filing this column on the anniversary of the...
- Political Correctness in Canada--Or Else - September 8, 2009
- It is hard to say whether the decision announced Wednesday by Athanasios Hadjis, the quasi-judge of the Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal, is a victory for free speech in...
- Kennedy: A Great Man with a Detestable Side - September 3, 2009
- Several readers actually complained when I did not write about the late Edward Kennedy on the weekend. "In a week when one of the most important politicians of our time...
- Sophistications - August 30, 2009
- It is insulting to be told an obvious lie; more insulting when the lie is insisted upon, in the face of undeniable facts. Unfortunately, few of our contemporary...
- Palin Called a Spade a Spade - August 17, 2009
- Just three weeks ago, I was writing in the Ottawa Citizen against niceness. I have pursued the theme recently with praise (sometimes backhanded) not only for the...
- A War Between Two World Views - July 17, 2009
- Sarah Palin celebrated Bastille Day Tuesday with an op-ed against "cap and trade" in the Washington Post. Bless the editors of that newspaper for permitting it....
- What Sarah Palin Represents - July 9, 2009
- One of the charms of print journalism is that columns must be filed in advance of publication. This affords the reader an opportunity to judge how well they have stood...
- The New America - July 5, 2009
- The Dow has been tanking again, and new figures show the U.S. economy shedding jobs at an accelerating rate. One might criticize the U.S. government for the first...
- Dialogue with Iran's Monstrous Rulers? - June 21, 2009
- Everything is on the line in Iran, at present -- not only the future of the Iranian regime, but also of the Middle East, and by extension, the most tangible western...
- Who Will Make the Case for America? - June 7, 2009
- When a politician announces, at the beginning of a major speech, that he is going to be entirely honest with you, you should stop trying to protect your wallet. For it...
- What We Fight For - June 4, 2009
- We have two important anniversaries this week: tomorrow is the 20th of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Saturday will be the 65th of D-Day. Both events retain...
- Impressively Scary - May 31, 2009
- It must be good for any President of the United States, or other freshly-minted leader, to be free of his "first 100 days." For this is the period through which he faces...
- Innocents Abroad - April 12, 2009
- Special envoys were meanwhile in Pakistan to evince deep concern about the trajectory of events there. They were told that Pakistan would not cooperate with the latest...
- Truth and Consequences - April 10, 2009
- "Barack Obama seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s, at home and abroad. He has already repeated Herbert Hoover's policy of raising taxes on...
- Too Clever by Half - March 21, 2009
- What the polls can't say directly, and thus perhaps the White House can't yet hear, is that the policies themselves are diminishing Mr. Obama's appeal. There are...
- Back to Carter - February 22, 2009
- That he may well be as good as his word, on the "green" issues among others, is an appalling thought, given the present economic fragility.The series of gestures on...
- The Doctrine of Darwin - February 12, 2009
- Unlike most of the celebrated figures in the history of science, Darwin was not a fox. He was a hedgehog. I refer to the ancient epigram of Archilochus, famously...
- Guantanamo - January 25, 2009
- Guantanamo was selected, by the Bush administration, to intern terrorists, because no better solution could be found. The military commissions were created, ditto. Under...
- Carbonations - January 23, 2009
- Both Barack Obama in the U.S., and Stephen Harper up here, are on the cusp of announcing ambitious new "climate" plans founded upon last decade's laughably "settled...
- Exit Bush - January 21, 2009
- Still vaguely remember: the attitudes among such of my elders as did not like or trust him, in the moments immediately before the Great Man took power, and the...
- Gaza & Hamas - January 5, 2009
- What has happened in Gaza is horrible. It is not even necessary to look at the sentimentalized atrocity pictures, which are the specialty of Gaza's freelance...
- Political Lives - October 30, 2008
- I'd rather retract that sentence for a different reason: it did not make my point well enough. My point -- and it is one worth frequent repetition when discussing...
- On Education - October 28, 2008
- Now, paradoxically, the dream of going to Oxford -- specifically, to Magdalen College, to study classics and philosophy -- had been among my more vivid ambitions in...
- Messianic Pretensions - October 25, 2008
- I had doubts about John McCain -- not as a man, but as a presidential candidate -- from the beginning. I preferred George W. Bush in the Republican primaries of 2000,...
- The Longest Political Season Limps to a Close - October 20, 2008
- For, with all but one seat reporting before midnight, the Tories were then elected or leading in 140-plus, and quite unchallengeable. Most of those seats were settled...
- Two Solitudes - October 14, 2008
- The phenomenon we call "Red Toryism" -- that is, the strange combination of snooty, upper-class paternalism with whacky socialist proposals for "reform" -- is ultimately...
- Failure of Nerve in Canada - October 9, 2008
- Stephen Harper, all parties, and all mainstream media agree, that this was a fait accompli. It was nothing of the kind. The alternative was to mount a crash program to...
- Ignoring the People - October 5, 2008
- It is not for a Canadian to lecture Americans on U.S. constitutional niceties, but I'm going to do it anyway. Money bills in that country are supposed to originate in...
- Playing Games - October 2, 2008
- (Most readers won't know this because they are not being told by the mainstream media: but yes, McCain began pleading with the Senate Banking Committee to act on huge...
- Bailout Blues - September 25, 2008
- What did I admire? First, the modesty of these people. No matter how wealthy and powerful, each was incapable of forgetting, for example, the Swatow noodle shop from...
- Cheap & Easy - September 18, 2008
- Let me now tell an anecdote which, I think, bears directly on the market phenomena we are witnessing, and have witnessed so many times before in history.My magazine was...
- Canadian Consensus - September 8, 2008
- Regardless of his political persuasions, I doubt any reader is himself in doubt about the views of McCain and Palin on, say, abortion, or same-sex marriage, or the...