by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Reset/Outreach R.I.P
It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy. Continue reading “Diplomacy Carterizes”
Tag: Iraq
Two Bad September Days
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Two terrible September days sum up the first decade of the new American millennium. Continue reading “Two Bad September Days”
Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community, particularly as US forces withdraw completely from the nation they’ve refereed since 2003.” Continue reading “Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction”
Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
As the last American troops roll south to Kuwait, the end of the war in Iraq invites unsettling comparisons to another war America declared over before losing its nerve and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Continue reading “Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran”
A Tale of Two Surges
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
From 2007 to 2009, a surge of 20,000 troops under the generalship of David Petraeus saved a mostly lost war in Iraq. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Surges”
The Pathology of Double Standards
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The surreal moral idiocy that characterizes hatred of Israel is illustrated daily by states whose actions are shrugged away by the international media. Continue reading “The Pathology of Double Standards”
The Middle East Mess
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the All the Same Old, Same Old Mess
Each country in the Middle East poses unique challenges. That said, gender apartheid, religious intolerance, tribalism, dictatorship, statism, and lack of transparency and free expression are widely shared in the region, and mean that any particular policy will almost immediately collide with some two millennia of habit and custom antithetical and often hostile to the values of the West. Continue reading “The Middle East Mess”
Taking Our Eye Off the Jihadist Ball
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Given our economic doldrums and the still metastasizing debt, the legislation raising the debt ceiling won’t keep the economy from dominating the nation’s attention until next year’s election. Continue reading “Taking Our Eye Off the Jihadist Ball”
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”
The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’
Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Continue reading “The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’”