The circus act we’re witnessing in the handling of Libya’s revolt is what the world looks like without American leadership. And before you accuse me of nativism, it’s obvious that if America doesn’t take the lead on international events, nobody else has the combination of expertise and assets to do it...
Remember all those liberals parroting the “democracy won’t work in the Middle East” conventional wisdom during an eight-year tantrum against George W Bush? Well, it seems those same liberals are now cheering on the democracy advocates demonstrating throughout the Greater Middle East...
The Chinese unified the Korean Peninsula in the 7 th Century, and a series of dynasties ruled Choson until 1910. The Japanese imposed a treaty on Korea in 1874 (guaranteeing access to trade), sparking the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Upon winning the war, Japan annexed Korea as a protectorate. Korean...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee [1] has approved the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (popularly known as the New START Treaty ) [2] for a floor-vote by the full US Senate [3...
Pre-Colombian maps of “the world” sported this phrase just westward of the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) because no one had sailed out there, and ignorance always breeds fear and myth. Just look at how a neighborhood organizer views the greater world – fear: “I’ll...
Associated Press reported today that SecDef Robert Gates sent a three-page memo to National Security Advisor General James Jones [USMC] noting that the United States has no “nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program”, meaning that with the obvious failure of diplomacy, there is no...
Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern Iraqi oil well). Now, let’s look at the...
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I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran claims was never returned after the Iran-Iraq War...
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President Obama’s Afghan options may be complex, but the choice is simple – prevent Afghanistan and [perhaps] Pakistan from becoming sanctuaries for international terrorism, or lose the war. Those are the stakes. Mr Obama sent his general into the “good war” with his strategy, and General McCrystal has...
The period between the close of hostilities in 1945 and the demise of the Soviet Union – nearly half a century – can be called the Age of Containment. The Grand Strategy of the United States was to contain the Soviet Union and its influence in the Third World (the First World being the West...