Iran has shelled two Iraqi villages, and has been caught by India importing nuclear material.
Archive for the ‘foreign policy’ Category
Iran on Offense
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, war, tagged Iran on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Obama Does the Kerry
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, terrorism, tagged Middle East, Obama on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
As in flip-flops on some minor issues involving “tiny” countries: Jerusalem and Iran. I suppose the first is not, technically, an inconsistency; he didn’t say Jerusalem should remain united under Israeli rule.
Are They Syrias?
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, terrorism, war, tagged Middle East on June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
John Kerry and Chuch Hagel argue today for Barack Obama’s policy proposal of meeting with Syria’s Hafez Assad. Well, they’re certainly right that doing so “could redefine the strategic landscape in the Middle East.”
Let’s look at their argument:
The recent announcement of peace negotiations between Israel and Syria through Turkey, and the agreement between the [...]
Thursday v. Friday at the Improv
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, tagged Obama, South America on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Jake Tapper finds another gaffe by Obama—this one of more significance, suggesting once again that his ideas about foreign affairs are pretty much improvised:
More recently, Obama as he traveled through Florida seemed to give some contradictory statements about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Colombian terrorist group FARC.
On Thursday Obama told the Orlando Sentinel that [...]
The Gathering Storm
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, war, tagged Lebanon, Middle East on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Barry Rubin writes of the fall of Lebanon, the threat Iran poses to the United States, and Obama’s evident lack of preparation to meet it. (HT: Power Line) I appreciate his comparison of the fall of Lebanon, in which we and other Western powers have acquiesced, to the fall of Czechoslovakia. As Churchill [...]
The Dangers of Summits: JFK
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, tagged JFK, Obama on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Wretchard reminds us of the history of the Kennedy administration. As Obama is fond of saying, JFK did meet with Khrushchev—with terrible, nearly disastrous results.
PowerLine, meanwhile, tells us what Kennedy and Nixon said in their second televised debate about meetings with foreign leaders. JFK was much more cautious than Obama.
The Democrats’ Left Turn
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, tagged Democrats on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Senator Joseph Lieberman details the Democrats’ sharp turn to the left over the past eight years, arguing that John McCain, not Barack Obama, is the heir to the foreign policies of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy.
This was the Democratic Party that I grew up in – a party that was unhesitatingly and proudly pro-American, a party [...]
Iran is “Tiny”?
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, war, tagged Obama on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Michelle Malkin, Caroline Glick, Roger Simon, and John Hinderaker react to Obama’s statement that Iran is not a threat to us the way the Soviet Union was, because it’s a tiny country that spends only 1/100th of what we do on the military. Iran isn’t exactly tiny—it’s about the size of Alaska, with a [...]
Unconditional Conditions
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, national security, tagged Iran, Obama on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Democrats, apparently, consider this “subtlety.” Republicans call it “incoherence.” Criticized for being willing to meet with President Ahmadinejad of Iran “without preconditions,” Barack Obama responded, as the New York Times reports:
For nearly a month, Republicans have stepped up attacks on Mr. Obama’s foreign policy perspective, highlighting a Hamas official’s complimentary comments about him [...]
The End of the World As We Know It
Posted in Politics, foreign policy, terrorism, war, tagged nuclear weapons, Obama on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gordon Chang isn’t being metaphorical:
Keeping the ultimate weapon out of the hands of the Iranians is, as they say, “a question of civilization.” After all, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made himself famous for his chatter about “wiping Israel off the map,” and Hassan Abassi, a senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, once said, [...]
