Over the past five days we’ve been inundated with all sorts of talking points emanating from the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and the leftwing echochamber of the blogosphere that one, the Iraqis, President Bush, and Gen. Petraeus have mirabile dictu suddenly found the wisdom of the Great Man’s pronouncements on Iraq vis-a-vis the [...] Read more »
The Man Who Would Be President - Obama Goes To Afghanistan
~by Bill Harrison
“We have been all over India and we have decided that India isn’t big enough for such as us.”
“We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings.”
British Indian Army Sergeants [...] Read more »
Is McCain Too Old To Be President? Only If You’re Historically Illiterate
by Bill Harrison
Much has been made in this year’s early presidential campaign of voter concerns about John McCain’s age as an alleged defect for his candidacy. These concerns are clearly indicated in polling on the matter but should they really serve as a cause for worry? History suggests they should not.
By all accounts Senator McCain’s [...] Read more »
Boumediene, et al v. Bush, et al: Bad Decision – Unknown Consequences
Last Friday in a 5-4 decision with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Sect. 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006(PDF) (hereinafter MCA) which denied the detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba access to the federal civilian courts to hear petitions [...] Read more »
So Why Did Hillary Lose? “It’s The War, Stupid”
The floodgates of the media and blogosphere are about to erupt with a torrent of articles examining exactly why Sen. Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic Party’s nomination to Sen. Barack Obama when a year ago her coronation appeared to be the more likely outcome. All sorts of angles will be covered and there can be little doubt that a variety of things contributed to her narrow defeat. The sloppily run campaign engineered by pollster Mark Penn who had never before run a national campaign. The apparent profligacy of that campaign fiscally that put Sen. Clinton in such a poor position financially mid-campaign that she was forced to float a loan from her own personal funds. Read more »
Trust But Verify - The Problems In Dealing With Syria and Iran
“Trust but verify.” Those were the watchwords of President Ronald Reagan when he embarked upon the historic series of negotiations with the Soviet Union that would culminate with the START I Treaty designed to reduce the numbers of nuclear weapons deployed by the United States and Soviet Union. Today a tempest in a teapot has [...] Read more »
Is Obama Another JFK? On Foreign Policy We Should Hope Not
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe former JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen joined former LBJ speechwriter Doris Kearns Goodwin for a discussion of the similarities between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy. For those less mindful of their history one could only sense that any such comparisons the two made favorably of Obama with Kennedy would redound [...] Read more »
I Am An “Appeaser”
Yes you indeed did read that correctly. I am an “appeaser” as that term should be understood properly from a historical perspective. So much hot air and verbiage has been spewed both over the television airwaves and in print this past week since President Bush’s speech before the Israeli Knesset which in most circles was [...] Read more »
