Jul 31, 2009 – Ronald Reagan championed it when he won the cold war, George H.W. … The NED asked the White House for a presidential meeting with dissident Bertha Atunez, who headed the Cuban Rosa Parks Women’s Movement … The President needs to worry less about getting along with tyrants and instead concern himself more with the security of the American…

Jul 30, 2009 – Yet the Indian is in good company. … "The fires are getting bigger. ... The sea level is rising." … The surprise is on us.…

Aug 17, 2009 – The intention here -- Obama said it back in 2003 and hasn't denied it since -- is to send us down a road that leads to government-provided … That leads me to wonder whether you were dismayed when Obama responded with stony indifference to the people in the streets of Iran … with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs.…

Aug 28, 2009 – At that point, Obama can be counted on to claim that it was Israel's recalcitrance in the negotiations with the Palestinians or the … As Follath sees it, both are equally responsible for the rising likelihood of war between Israel and Iran that is liable to suck in … Whether Netanyahu is dealing with Obama or European leaders, the game is rigged against us.…

Aug 28, 2009 – It is not the amount of coverage that bothers; it is the quality of reporting. … Along with the inaccurate suggestions we're hearing from the press that he was beloved by all are the suggestions, again echoed across … On CBS, reporter Bill Plante asserted the Iran-Contra affair helped "set the stage for the first Iraq war and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism…

Sep 7, 2009 – the angry left angry at him. … The third issue on which Obama will need to choose is Iran. … Earlier this year he set a deadline of September for the beginning of talks with Iran.…

Sep 4, 2009 – The U.S. military released a senior Shiite terrorist with close ties to Iran in early June 2009. … The terrorist, Laith al-Khazali, is a member of the terror group Asa'ib al-Haq. … Barack Obama is attempting to buy peace with terrorist organizations by negotiating the release of their combatants in our custody.…

Sep 3, 2009 – thinking, from the conventional wisdom to war strategy. … The point of withdrawal is to stop trying to create an American ally out of Sharia-supreme Afghanistan, something we attempted at great … Quick facts: Pakistan's army's motto is "Faith, piety and holy war in the path of Allah."…

Sep 17, 2009 – But the Bush administration outsourced negotiations with Iran to European diplomats who made no progress. … This would provide "the fastest and most cost-effective protection against the long-range missiles that Iran is projected to have by … At the same time, Iran's ruling mullahs will be delighted to learn that the West not only is unserious about preventing them from acquiring…

Sep 17, 2009 – The former President is not content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. … Nor is he content with having cut the legs from under the Shah of Iran, which led to the establishment of the Islamic theocracy in … Nor is he content -- as ex-President -- with writing a book in which he likened the state of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians…

Sep 9, 2009 – America needed to "cope with a crisis that otherwise would overwhelm us." The speech had immediate influence. … And so Barack Obama's address to Congress on health care, at a minimum, must answer the question: What is the crisis? … dissatisfied" with the health care they get in other ways.…

Sep 25, 2009 – are "reluctant to align with us" is due to the "perception" -- eight years and untold billions in largesse after we entered the country … And that, according to the report, is why we're losing this war (fireable offense No. 2). … the country doesn't grant us staging rights for an attack on Iran (or anywhere else).…

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…