Here are 4 things some people believe and my responses to them: Newt Gingrich still has a chance to be President. Reality: plenty of people still like the guy, but a majority of Republicans are not in his corner. The loss of several key staffers recently would indicate that even some of those who were […]
In a speech on foreign policy recently, specifically the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said that, really, our priority needs to be the American economy. I was struck with how much the President’s priorities were just the opposite of Richard Nixon’s, which certainly doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but let me
I’ve read a few articles recently that discussed President Obama’s new foreign policy principles. He has committed himself to working with other countries in carrying out international objectives. This is supposed to be a change from the George W. Bush era when the United States acted in a unilateral fashion. Frankly, I’ve read the articles,
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President Barack Obama’s pick to be our newest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, is at the same time both a predictable choice and a surprising one. Here’s what I mean: Ms. Kagan has a liberal world view, which is totally unremarkable. The President is left of center, so it only makes sense that he wants
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I’ve never particularly cared for the phrase “another Vietnam” when describing a foreign policy situation. That war was so controversial and unpopular it makes it difficult to have a fair-minded discussion on any new conflict if it gets compared to Vietnam. Nevertheless, I was reading an article online recently and the parallels were quite unsettling.
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