Tag Archives: U.S. Defense Policy

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 …

May 27, 2009 – 11:33 am | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Obama administration, U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

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 …

January 20, 2009 – 1:41 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Bush, Republican Party, U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

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 …

October 21, 2008 – 12:29 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 2008 U.S. Election, McCain, Obama, U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, media bias | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

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.

August 18, 2008 – 2:56 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Russia, U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

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 …

August 12, 2008 – 10:03 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in U.S. Defense Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Intelligence Community | Tagged , | Comments (0)