by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has introduced in the House of Representatives the UN Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act. Continue reading “Defund the UN”
Tag: Foreign Policy
Yet Another Reason to Leave the UN
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
No one familiar with the sordid history of the United Nations should be surprised at the moral idiocy recently on display in Turtle Bay, when the General Assembly cheered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ demand for statehood despite offering Israel nothing in return. Continue reading “Yet Another Reason to Leave the UN”
Myth and Reality After 9/11
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Why did radical Islamic terrorists kill almost 3,000 Americans a decade ago? Continue reading “Myth and Reality After 9/11”
A Lovely Little NATO Intervention
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
World powers sometimes have to fight wars not for some material interest, but for bolstering a nation’s prestige in order to deter more dangerous aggressors. Continue reading “A Lovely Little NATO Intervention”
Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The greatest danger in foreign policy is a reliance on worn out paradigms and unexamined assumptions. This received wisdom acts as a mental filter that ignores new developments and lets through only that information which fits the preordained narrative. Continue reading “Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift”
Obama’s Libya Venture and Double Standards
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The champion of shameless chutzpah has always been the guy who murders his parents then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan. Continue reading “Obama’s Libya Venture and Double Standards”
An Honest Obama Campaign
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Given what we know now, I think Obama’s summer-2008 campaign speeches should have sounded something like this: Continue reading “An Honest Obama Campaign”
Adios, Pakistan
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
“I don’t care if someone is giving us money; we are not a purchasable commodity. We cannot be bought. We can live in hunger, but we won’t compromise our national interests.”
– Bashir Bilour, a Pakistani senior minister, in angry response following an al-Qaeda reprisal for the American killing of Osama bin Laden Continue reading “Adios, Pakistan”
Living the Obama Dream
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Gas Dreams Come True
High energy costs to the Obamites are only unfortunate in terms of overcoming short-term political challenges. Continue reading “Living the Obama Dream”
OK, Let’s Decline
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
“Leading From Behind”
A recent report in The New Yorker suggested that the Obama’s administration’s weird sort of/sort of not foreign policy is now gleefully self-described as “leading from behind.” Continue reading “OK, Let’s Decline”