International Politics

In my essay, “Enhanced Interrogation’s in the Charts Again,” I suggested that the radical left will “ratchet-up its push for war crimes prosecutions in the weeks ahead.”
The funny thing about it, though, is that even the most die-hard foes of the administration’s war on terror admit that criminal prosecutions of Bush administation officials are a [...] Read more »

It’s almost a sure bet that Muntadar al-Zaidi had no anticipation of how successful his shoe attack on President Bush would be in mobilizing all sides of the partisan divide over Iraq, both at home and abroad.
On the other hand, it’s worth noting, that as an Iraqi journalist, Muntadar must have surely known that his [...] Read more »

Some time back, I wrote about Robert Farley’s review of David Horowitz and Ben Johnson’s Party of Defeat.
Recall that Farley completely bombed in his attempt at making even the slightest dent in the Horowitz and Johnson’s thesis, a thesis holding that the Democrats - pandering to their antiwar base - turned against a war they [...] Read more »

Victory in Iraq was all but declared earlier this year.
Both major candidates have claimed success for the Petraeus surge, and each have proposed policy adjustments for the future of Iraq and global security. Even this week, the Associated Press conceded a major Bush administration argument on the conflict, that success in Iraq would stablize the [...] Read more »

As a rule, I don’t use sources from the Associated Press (for obvious reasons), but their article on Iraq’s role in stabilizing American power in the Middle East is noteworthy, “Stable Iraq Could Influence Mideast” (alternative link here):

Iraq is likely to play a significant role in America’s Middle East policy for decades — even as [...] Read more »

“The Japanese have United the People!”
I haven’t commented on Korean related foreign affairs in some time, and a great deal has happened since the anti-American beef protests a few months back. During the beef import spat, I had a friend tell me that I need just wait for Japan to do something nationalistic, and that [...] Read more »

Randy Scheunemann, who is John McCain’s top foreign policy advisor, has been in the spotlight this last week due to his past lobbying ties to the Georgian government. Critics have alleged that Scheunemann’s previous dealings have contributed to war in the Caucasus.
This morning’s Los Angeles Times includes a feature story on Scheunemann, with the bottom [...] Read more »