Category Archives: U.S. Foreign Policy

Obama’s True Calling

Obama has been a “community organizer” and President.  He failed at the first and is failing at the second.  Neither is his true calling.  It is now clear what that is. Having witnessed his performance this week in Cairo, Buchenwald concentration camp, and Omaha Beach, Obama is the world’s apologizer in chief.  He does it

North Korea Challenges Obama

It was going to happen.  Vice President Biden warned the American people that the neophyte Obama would be challenged  in an international crisis within 6 months of his presidency.  North Korea is offering such a challenge with its second nuclear test and subsequent missile tests.  The only good thing coming out of the test is

What Was the Bush Presidency?

Every president has successes and failures.  Every president is termed the “worst president ever.”  President Bush could not be an exception. So how will history judge President Bush.  The Left will write the history, so the answer is “not well.”  Iraq will be figured prominently, as indeed it should.  But the positive and negative aspects

Jihad and Strategic Awareness of the Threat to America

Please read this excellent analysis by Jeffrey Imm of the strategic threat jihadism poses to the United States. Seven years ago, America was under attack. America’s first responders, law enforcement, and emergency specialists responded to that attack. Our preparedness specialists provided guidance on the types of terrorist threats that we might be facing in the

What Is Not Being Addressed. And Won’t Be.

This campaign is notable principally because of the participants. The fact that one candidate is black and the other a woman overwhelms Old Media coverage, and so it is the responsibility of New Media to uncover the facts and provide analysis of the candidates’ policies. What is clear is the lack of attention to foreign

So It’s Obama and Biden–Plus ca change…

Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. So what does this mean?

Georgia On My Mind

It seems T.S. Eliot was wrong, at least for the Georgians—August is the cruelest month. Let’s take stock of what the Russians call Operation “Scorched Earth,” their invasion of South Ossetia and Georgia.

U.S. Intelligence Was Not Surprised by Russian Invasion

Jeff Stein at CQ.com has a great story concerning why the U.S. intelligence community was almost certainly not surprised by the Russian attack on Georgia. Stein’s key paragraphs: As easy as it is to believe that the CIA, etc., blew another huge event, I find it impossible to accept that not one of the 127