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- If We're Not in to Win, Bring Our Troops Home - November 18, 2009
- In the past few days, the White House has made it clear that the president wants specific exit strategies for all his Afghan war options. That brought to mind the advice...
- Hillary in 2012? - November 11, 2009
- I write this week from New Orleans, where I am participating in the Bipartisan Policy Center's Inaugural Political Summit, organized by Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and Bob...
- A Curious Lack of Curiosity Over Intelligence Outrage - November 4, 2009
- Not so long ago, there was a furious fight among different tribes in the White House, CIA and State and Defense departments over the correct war-fighting strategy. The...
- GOP Must Embrace Voters' Passion - October 28, 2009
- A growing percentage of those Americans who oppose President Barack Obama believe the president is testing the envelope of acceptable domestic, constitutional and...
- The World Won't Wait On Washington Indecision - October 21, 2009
- On three fronts -- South Korean trade, Ukrainian/Russian diplomacy and Afghan war fighting -- the Obama administration is being increasingly pressured by unfolding...
- Washington Is Nuts - October 14, 2009
- Want to hear a real laugher? Despite the current disharmony in politics, there's one policy on which all of Washington agrees. Republicans and Democrats, House and...
- Exploding Federal Debt The Big Danger - Washington Times - October 14, 2009
- Want to hear a real laugher? Despite the current disharmony in politics, there's one policy on which all of Washington agrees. Republicans and Democrats, House and...
- Cherry-Picking Intelligence...Again - October 7, 2009
- Al-Qaida is becoming the weapons of mass destruction of the Obama administration's war in Afghanistan. Or, to be more precise, it is a reverse WMD. For the George W....
- An Evasion of Reality - September 30, 2009
- The gist of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's analysis that presumably will be presented to President Barack Obama is: If 1) you and Congress fully resource the effort (troops,...
- The Democratic Party is Playing With Fire - September 23, 2009
- As the town hall meetings on health care started in early August, the Democratic Party's talking points accused the attending citizens of being "demonstrators hired by K...
- Administration Downsizes Our Diplomatic Muscle - September 16, 2009
- With one-sixth of the Obama administration's term of office complete, last week it revealed its profound commitment to an unprecedented policy of eschewing the exercise...
- Impending Washington Deal on Health Care - September 9, 2009
- As the politicians who support the president's health care plans escape back into Washington from America -- and as the politicians who oppose the president's health...
- Waterboarding Worked on KSM - September 2, 2009
- "President George W. Bush kept us safe from further terrorist attacks." Few presidential claims have been less persuasive to the public than that. Yet after Sept. 11,...
- Command Decision - August 26, 2009
- On May 27, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had telephone conversations about Vietnam with McGeorge Bundy, his national security adviser, and Sen. Richard Russell,...
- Finally, Change We Can Believe In - August 19, 2009
- Those of us who are self-appointed advocates -- who expend our efforts trying to persuade a few more people to our political point of view -- must sit back in...
- What to Do in Afghanistan? - August 12, 2009
- I have talked with soldiers from Afghanistan -- both American and British, both in the ranks and field-grade officers -- in an effort at making sense of what we are...
- Health Politics Quagmire - August 5, 2009
- The president's health care initiative is vulnerable to defeat (and the high esteem in which the public generally has held him is in jeopardy) because of unforced errors...
- A Pocketful of Miracles - July 29, 2009
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whatever her other capacities, demonstrated last week that she is a master at the poetic art of haiku -- the Japanese poem form that...
- Why 'Comprehensive Reform' is Risky - July 22, 2009
- I was listening to National Public Radio's morning "news" Monday on the way to work, during which the newsperson read the apparently "factual" statement that the United...
- 'Freeing Tibet' - July 15, 2009
- As I cruise around the Greek Isles for a few weeks, I want to recommend a truly remarkable book for your summer reading, "Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle,...
- Sarah Agonistes - July 8, 2009
- Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable...
- From Kabul to Baghdad -- and Back - July 1, 2009
- This week, American troops start leaving Iraqi cities in compliance with both former President George W. Bush's negotiated start date for withdrawal and President Barack...
- The Presidency at 5 Months - June 24, 2009
- Last week, both David Broder, The Washington Post's venerable and authoritative political voice, and Chuck Todd, NBC's new important political voice, declared President...
- A Fine Madness in the Washington Air - June 17, 2009
- To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not...
- Europe Asks, Does Tomorrow Belong to Us? - June 10, 2009
- Last weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections were not only a victory for the center-right over the center-left but also, more...
- Death by Deficit - June 3, 2009
- The Roman historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic: "Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus" ("We can bear neither our...
- The Myth of 5 Million Green Jobs - May 27, 2009
- In 1845, the French economist Frederic Bastiat published a satirical petition from the "Manufacturers of Candles" to the French Chamber of Deputies, which ridiculed the...
- Reality and the Two-State Solution - May 20, 2009
- Upon hearing of the death of a Turkish ambassador, the serpentine French diplomat Talleyrand was reputed to have responded, "I wonder what he meant by that." With that...
- Arabs Pressure Obama for Quick Peace Accord - May 13, 2009
- Last Sunday, the British newspaper The Times published an interview with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in which the maturing king demonstrated a deft touch in putting...
- Pakistan Poses a 'Mortal Threat' - May 6, 2009
- Does anyone take serious words seriously anymore here in Washington? News item No. 1 concerns the testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the House...
- Public's Right To Know? - April 29, 2009
- Several events in recent months bring back to the forefront the perennial assertion that, on grounds of both efficacy and ethics, the public's "right to know" is the...
- Honest Talk About Chinese Currency Manipulation - April 22, 2009
- Last week, the Obama administration declined to cite China for currency manipulation despite the fact that most experts -- including Treasury Secretary Timothy...
- A Nuclear Talibanistan? - April 15, 2009
- Our view of Pakistan's role in the war in Afghanistan has undergone an ominous but necessary series of shifts. At the outset of the war, in October 2001, Pakistan...
- Health Care in the Offing - April 8, 2009
- Also, President Obama wants to digitize and collect all patient health care data initially because such data could assist in assessing best practices. This...
- 'Liberty and Tyranny' Reviewed - April 1, 2009
- And that is the vital lesson that my friend Mark Levin instructs us on in his new book, which is already a best-seller in America -- and also should be so in...
- The Most Dangerous City in the World - March 25, 2009
- When I wrote last week's column, before the AIG fury erupted, I argued that we in Washington should dial back our rhetoric because public passions were...
- Getting Too Ugly, Too Soon - March 18, 2009
- On the president's side, a high-toned prizewinner called the GOP arguments "fraudulent," saying they intend to push the U.S. economy over "the edge of...
- Obama's Gamble - March 11, 2009
- After 50 days on the job, the average of his job approval polls, according to RealClearPoltics, is 60.3 percent -- almost precisely average for such data on...
- Obama Keeps Misrepresenting His Positions - March 4, 2009
- The other difference is that Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He merely was mistaken. Whereas Obama told a whopper when he claimed...
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - February 25, 2009
- Perhaps it was with those comments in mind that our former president took the opportunity -- while purportedly complimenting his successor -- to advise...