Sep 25, 2009 – The F-22 program is now dead. … The latest news is that the procurement team which has been placed in charge of rebidding the tanker will ignore the World Trade Organization … In the largest case ever filed before the WTO, the US Trade Representative successfully established that the tens of billions of dollars…

Sep 25, 2009 – But much of the president's speech was filled with pomp, exaggeration, political posturing and over-the-top promises that he is going … Despite Obama's repeated claims that he has ended the Iraq war -- or at least America's participation in it -- the fact remains that … America's role there was in the process of winding down at the end of the Bush presidency.…

Sep 25, 2009 – Specifically, they argue that he is laying the necessary groundwork to contain and isolate Iran, coaxing the Russians into a new round … No, the "greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another." This week he rehashed the same rhetoric. … It is good that it came down with our victory in the Cold War.…

Sep 24, 2009 – Haiti. -- At the UN this week, Obama once again pressured Israel to work with the Palestinians -- this time by freezing West … Why did Obama snub two allies -- the Poles notably having fought loyally with us in both Iraq and Afghanistan? … "the good war."…

Sep 21, 2009 – On the other hand, they will not give the slightest consideration to the fact that Iran is about to become a nuclear power, in contempt … After all, now that the US has agreed to hold negotiations with Ahmadinejad's representatives next month about whatever Iran would … Today it is Ahmadinejad, not the US or the UN Security Council, who sets the agendas and conditions for meetings.…

Sep 20, 2009 – Cue the doves in places like Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Tehran, and Caracas. Peace is at hand. Peace in our time. … Its relevance is reinforced each and every time those who play with matches and kindling ignore the obvious-to-anyone-with-a-brain … The book is called, Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II.…

Sep 18, 2009 – The idea that we would eliminate now our capability to deal with them down the road is transparently a political decision, not a national … To the contrary, all the evidence suggests otherwise: Vladimir Putin is enabling that Iranian threat, with nuclear technology, anti-aircraft … near-term missile threats Iran is now posing to our allies and forces in the Mideast.…

Oct 7, 2009 – Today's column is for all hawkish Americans currently wrestling with looming doubts about the pointlessness of the U.S. … It is not, as our presidents vaguely invoke, a war against "terrorism," "radicalism" or "extremism"; and it is not, as the current … The war that has fallen to our generation is to halt the spread of Islamic law (Sharia) in the West, whether driven by the explosive…

Oct 5, 2009 – China uses more oil incrementally than the US because its growth is less energy efficient. … Chinese financial sources believe President Barack Obama is too busy fixing the US economy to concentrate on the extraordinary implications … The US discussed the trend briefly at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh; the Chinese Central Bank governor and other officials have been…

Oct 3, 2009 – The second is whether Obama will start up the road of "crippling sanctions" to war with Iran, to prevent Tehran from moving closer … As one steps back and looks at a decade of U.S. intervention and war in the Middle East, what has it all availed us? … The Shia who now run the country are moving away from us, and closer to Iran, as we depart.…

Oct 1, 2009 – No wonder the regime in Iran is less than impressed by all these words that are only words. … Only the Israelis seem fully aware of the threat Iran now poses, or at least fully aware of the need to do something besides talk about … Israel's current premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, is no stranger to the sacrifices that war demands.…

Sep 30, 2009 – At least that's the sense one gets as the president is suddenly searching for a politically palatable strategy other than the one he … When an economic crisis that is -- according to Obama, at least -- second only to the Depression exploded in front of him, Obama the … After ending the war in Iraq and taking the fight to bin Laden's cave, direct engagement with the Iranian regime was candidate Obama's…

Sep 28, 2009 – He is "responsibly ending" the war in Iraq (no triumphalist talk of victory). … installed in the White House, America is now on the same page with the rest of the world. … At a press briefing before the G-20 conference, Brown and Sarkozy threatened Iran with stringent international sanctions; congressional…

Sep 28, 2009 – The fact of the matter is that Brzezinski's view is in line with the general disposition of Obama's foreign policy. … Instead, Obama announced that he is sending a senior US official to meet with the Iranians on October 1. … And indeed, the notion that the US would go to war against Israel to protect Iran's nuclear installations is laughably absurd.…

Sep 28, 2009 – At times, Obama appeared to be the grown-up in the campaign as McCain made misstep after misstep. While it is doubtful that Mr. … The most heated disputes have occurred around foreign policy issues -- Viet Nam, Iran-Contra and the Iraq War have all raised greater … The problem is that no matter how bad the current economy is, it is not the second Great Depression.…

Oct 15, 2009 – The third was at the military's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, where Taliban insurgents, armed with automatic weapons, grenades … Pakistan is having a historic debate and it is having it in the midst of a civil war. … I'm persuaded that the majority in this country is on the right side of the debate, the civil war and the global conflict.…

Oct 14, 2009 – again, that Afghanistan was a "war of necessity" while the war in Iraq was a "war of choice." … As liberals endlessly reminded us during the three weeks of war in Afghanistan before the U.S. military swept into Kabul, Afghanistan … Liberals sneered at Bush's description of Iraq as the "central front of the war on terror" and a step toward the "democratization of…

Oct 14, 2009 – at the site. … The switch from nuclear power to nuclear weapons is less a scientific than a political decision for the Iranians at this point. … left to Nicholas Sarkozy to tell it with the bark off the next day at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh: "President Obama himself…

Oct 13, 2009 – Plutarch tells us that, back in the fifth-century B.C., when the citizens of Athens were voting on whether to ostracize -- i.e., … It is the point, what happens when the air starts to seep from a balloon flying improbably high? … The Nobel Peace Prize is just the latest instance of dangerous overstretch on the part of people who have invested their dreams in…

Oct 19, 2009 – TURKEY'S BREAK with the West; its decisive rupture with Israel and its opposition to the US in Iraq and Iran was predictable. … and proof positive that the US and the West have no problem with political Islam. … This is just as true for Turkey as it is for the US, for Iran and for Sweden and Egypt.…

Oct 19, 2009 – It really became apparent with his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. … FDR would tell them the war is over when we win; not when it gets tiresome. … The problem is once that requirement is established, the Democrats will begin to lard up the policies with other requirements like…

Nov 6, 2009 – As they dodged the blows of the militia, they chorused: "Obama! Obama! Either you're with them or you're with us." … He could have expressed his hopes for good relations with the people of Iran. … In Iran, the violence is coming exclusively from the government, which is firing upon unarmed demonstrators.…

Nov 5, 2009 – The latter would exhaust the American public’s limited patience – this because of an unending and costly war with nothing to show for … Let us be thoroughly mindful that time is fast working against us, for very soon we will no longer have the relative freedom of action … America, the doomsday clock is ticking.…

Nov 4, 2009 – who are allied with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who herself is in open war against the CIA, calling them criminal liars to Congress … Is it the group in the White House closely allied with the Defense Department, which -- for deep institutional reasons that transcend … Is it some political player at the White House acting in the interest of some other faction at the CIA, which many knowledgeable people…

Oct 30, 2009 – -Iran talks? Or is someone trying to torpedo the talks and push Iran and the United States into military collision? … war with Iran would be an act of madness. … being pushed from behind into a war with Iran.…