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President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses the Threat of 1930s Violent Extremism

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Imagine Obama as an American president in 1939. by Victor Davis Hanson // PJMedia “The United States has made significant gains [2] in our struggle against violent extremism in Europe. We are watching carefully aggressions in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and in Eastern Europe. My diplomatic team has made it very clear that aggression against neighbors is […]

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Five Middle East Blunders

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The underlying causes of chaos in the Middle East are indigenous. But Obama hasn’t helped. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online President Obama claims he inherited a mess in the Middle East. Not so. Fracking and horizontal drilling on private lands in the U.S. had taken off in the last years of the

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Snarker-in-Chief

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No one — least of all the American people — is exempt from our president’s snark. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Snark is a popular word used for a particular sort of off-putting sarcasm. Snarkiness can manifest itself as adolescent cheap shots, snide condescension, or simple ad hominem patronizing — a sort

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The Roots of Obama’s Appeasement

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The president’s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Members of the Obama administration have insisted that the Taliban are not terrorists. Those responsible for the recent Paris killings are not radical Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular.

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Obama Does Have a Strategy

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Once you see what he is trying to accomplish, it all makes sense. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The Wise People of American foreign policy — Madeleine Albright, General Jack Keane, Henry Kissinger, General James Mattis, George Shultz, and others — recently testified before Congress. Their candid and insightful collective message dovetailed

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Barack Obama, Empire Builder

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Not since the 1930s and early 1940s have we seen so many malevolent empires on the rise. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Empires can rise and fall quickly. After World War I, the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian Empires abruptly collapsed amid military defeat, rising nationalism, and revolution. Yet on the eve

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The Dangers of Obama’s Cognitive Dissonance

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by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine There are many moments from the past 6 years that demonstrate the criminal incompetence of this president and his administration. But for me, Obama’s interview with GloZell––whose claim to YouTube fame comes from eating Cheerios in a bathtub filled with milk––represents best the essential emptiness, triviality, and sheer

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Obama, a One-Man Revolution

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In his “fourth quarter,” he feels free to ignore popular opinion, the rule of law, and Congress. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Until now there were two types of peaceful American change. One was a president, like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, working with Congress to alter American life from the

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