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- Obama's Quagmire of Ambiguity - February 3, 2010
- Last week, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote: "Who is Barack Obama? Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don't get it soon -- or if they...
- Repeal the 17th Amendment - January 27, 2010
- As I was preparing to write a column on the ludicrous maligning of the Tea Party movement by liberals, Democrats and the mainstream media (which I hope to write next...
- Kangaroo Court for the Banks - January 20, 2010
- As a general rule, diagnosis should precede treatment. But last week, we saw in both the legislative and executive branches examples of the "treatment before diagnosis"...
- Reject Politically Correct "Educated Class" - January 13, 2010
- Anti-anti-Islamic radicalism is growing amongst Western elites. In the aftermath of the Fort Hood Islamist terror attack on our troops by United States Army Maj. Nidal...
- Winston Churchill Still Instructs - January 6, 2010
- Over the Christmas holiday, I read a couple of books that, at least for me, may provide some guidance in the upcoming tumultuous and probably consequential year. The...
- Afghan War Policy Fractured - December 30, 2009
- Franklin Roosevelt was famous for being able to give people on all sides of a policy dispute the impression that he supported each person's position. Such artfulness...
- Americans Will Come Down on Side of Freedom - December 23, 2009
- Taking stock this second Christmas after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency -- as a conservative Republican (with growing "tea party" tendencies) -- I'm...
- Backroom Deals for America's Future - December 16, 2009
- As the Democrats in Congress approach the end of a frustrating first year's legislative effort, their leaders and the White House are being tempted by three possible...
- Afghanistan: Too Much Spin - December 9, 2009
- A sense of unreality overshadows our debate on Afghan war policy across the spectrum of opinions. The unreality derives from the simple fact that we do not have enough...
- U.S. Decline is Not Inevitable - December 2, 2009
- Regularly reading the Financial Times (Britain's leading financial daily) can put an American in a fighting spirit. At least, it puts this American (transplanted former...
- Afghan Rebuttal and Surrebuttal on the Right - November 25, 2009
- Two noteworthy responses to my column last week ("An Exit Strategy To Die For") deserve my reply. In the online magazine Commentary, Max Boot, one of the most respected...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...