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. Share This
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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.” Share This
Bin Laden Is Dead, But Our Delusions Live On
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The death of Osama bin Laden has some symbolic value, particularly for the United States. A great power exercises influence not just through its military and economic assets, but through its prestige. Share This
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Humanitarian Beheading
by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet There are a number of videos circulating about from “free Libya” showing grotesque head-loppings, executions, torture and desecration of bodies, of African mercenaries who apparently were captured or killed by the rebels in Libya. Share This
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Foreign Policy Charity Should Start at Home
Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The outbreak of protests and rebellion throughout the Middle East have quickly generated an orthodox narrative: When people suffering under brutal autocrats and dictators have finally risen up to satisfy the innate human longing for freedom and democracy, we should support these aspirations on moral grounds. Share This
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A Middle East Policy in Shambles
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost every promise, almost every reset proclamation from Barack Obama about the struggles against, and those within, the radical Muslim world has either been withdrawn or proven bankrupt. Share This
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Libya: The Genesis of a Bad Idea
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The president spoke Monday night to clarify our intervention in Libya. Instead he made things worse, and could not explain the mission (are we/are we not after Qaddafi?), the methodology to achieve it (are we in a no-fly-zone or are we bombing ground targets essential to save the rebels?),
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The Obama Doctrine
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Obama Doctrine is simple: Proclaim a utopian policy, and then pray that most of the people who hear it are Neanderthals who will ignore it. Having said one thing, doing quite another is not only thereby okay, but also absolutely essential. Keep that paradox in mind, and
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Obama Still Murky on Libya
by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner President Obama just gave a weird speech. Part George W. Bush, part trademark Obama — filled with his characteristic split-the-difference, straw-man (“some say, others say”), false-choice tropes. Share This
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Foreign Policy as Wishful Thinking
by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The current military intervention in Libya by the West has been marketed with the claim that its purpose, as French President Sarkozy put it, is “to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that has forfeited all claim to legitimacy.” Behind this humanitarian
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