Apr 11, 2008 – I believe the Iraq war has everything to do with our national security. … And don't forget that Democrats refuse to discern that Iraq is a part of the war on terror and so, regardless of the specific consequences … By contrast, I think most Republicans, in varying degrees, believe Iraq is part of the war.…

Apr 24, 2008 – The false premise on which all negotiations with Islamic terrorists have been based is that the terrorists lack something that, if … If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, all our good intentions will produce is a superhighway. … Why do we persist in believing their lies when the only thing they have been consistent at is lying?…

May 9, 2008 – Worse yet, voters trust the Democrats more than Republicans on the economy, government ethics, the war in Iraq, health care, Social … However, there is one overriding problem that dwarfs all the others, a problem that few people in the leadership of the Republican … , but surely lose the war for the future of our country.…

May 8, 2008 – Oh, and declaring defeat in the war on terror. … the gains we have achieved in Iraq” — and how clear the choice “between the general who is leading us to victory and the critics who … Further, how much sense would it make to withdraw American forces from the Iraqi border with Iran — an Iran posing the largest threat…

May 6, 2008 – their support for the Iraq war. … The historical record is clear: the larger the prominence of Brussels in E.U. affairs, the smaller the aggregate role of Europe in … The unmistakable signal that such a policy sends to rogue states like Iran is that they can continue their progress on weapons of mass…

May 6, 2008 – Is war with Iran inevitable, even imminent? Or is peace at hand? … that war with Iran is far from the mind of this city. … the opposite -- that war with Iran is indeed inevitable, and probably soon.…

May 3, 2008 – Some of us have been the subject of biographies. … Clark understood that Iran-Contra was, in essence, a classic war-powers dispute between the executive and legislative branches over … This is not the place to revisit the details of the controversy or to argue its merits, but it is the place to highlight how Clark…

May 2, 2008 – With American deaths now over the 4,000 mark and the seriously wounded at around 15,000, we are sick and tired of this war. … The truth is that the Democrats are cashing in on a mindless impatience with Iraq and an unwillingness to think through the consequences … If the candidate is Obama, their concerns will resonate with their perception that he is inexperienced and doesn't know his way around…

May 2, 2008 – . -- In the U.S. military, there is a wonderful little expression: "A good plan never survives the first contact with the enemy." … The corollary to this rule is: "Expect the unexpected." … Obama is a member, had "stood in solidarity with the peasants in El Salvador and Nicaragua while our government, through Ollie North…

May 2, 2008 – So there I was, listening to a few of the major "architects" of the war in Iraq -- Paul Wolfowitz, formerly No. 2 man at the Pentagon … They had assembled at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., for a discussion of Feith's new book, "War and Decision: Inside the … Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism," but what they were drawn to discuss was what went wrong with the war in Iraq.…

May 1, 2008 – The gloomy election-year refrain is that America is mired in Iraq, took its eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran and is losing the … get the right officers in the right places at the right time. … But is the war then nearly won? Hardly. And that brings us to the bad news.…

May 18, 2008 – Elsewhere Obama has suggested that he would meet personally with President Ahmedinejad of Iran. If the shoe fits, Mr. … But the policy of non-negotiation with terrorist nations is not merely a “Bush thing” or a “McCain thing” - - it’s an “American thing … The next President will have to grapple with the fact that some people around the world want to kill us - - and not because Bush is…

May 16, 2008 – As the president of the United States, he would sit down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, one-third of the original … If this is the message you got from your mentor, would you expect that you could succeed? Would you try very hard, if at all?" … The change we need is a reality check on the road to Jan. 20, 2009.…

May 15, 2008 – The man is leaving office in eight months; his presidency noticeably marked by the uneven tread of the lame duck. … Whether the subject is his feelings about Mexican illegal aliens, the war in Iraq or on-off Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, I … the best way to keep us secure."…

May 12, 2008 – and the false charge that he is a Muslim is scurrilous. … voters from the real issues at stake in the election, and, thus, illegitimate. … Rather than argue that his position on Iran is the right one and has no bearing on how Hamas views him, Senator Obama makes a false…

May 11, 2008 – That is the highest disapproval rating since Gallup began polling 70 years ago -- higher than Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War … The sentiment is even more negative now than it was in 1992, when the GOP lost the White House. … "A desire to put this chapter behind us." The fallout is already apparent.…

May 29, 2008 – In Oregon he said Iran and the others “don’t pose a serious threat to us.” … The next day, in Montana, he said: “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.” … For it suggests Obama is finding a major preachment (unconditional, no-strings talks in the first year of his presidency with Hugo…

May 28, 2008 – Initially his foreign policy platform was a naive pledge to meet "unconditionally" with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba … Obama's "strategy" for dealing with evil is the progeny of a secular age that sees everything bad as curable through counseling, good … Obama debunks the value of experience, claiming the experience of President Bush and John McCain got us into the lengthy Iraq War…

May 26, 2008 – of War" and "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming," he is the senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at the Hoover … with the premise that there was nothing at all possibly glorious about war. … Part of the problem with that genre is that, a), it's right in the middle of a war; and b), when Paul Bremer writes he's going to blame…

May 23, 2008 – Most of the time you don't negotiate with enemy leaders because there is nothing to negotiate. … (On the contrary. Islamic Iran is dangerously apocalyptic. Soviet Russia was not.) … The next day in Billings, Mont.: "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."…

May 22, 2008 – “Green” is a veteran with two sons serving in Iraq. He is adamantly against the war and adamantly for Barack Obama. … Radical Islam is waging a holy war against us—and they have no intent on ending their war against the West. … I fear Iran will continue to develop nuclear weapons and breathlessly rush to the annihilation of Israel which will bring war to the…

May 22, 2008 – That is the fact." … What moral authority in the war on terrorism would Obama have left if he were seen sitting down with a lunatic like Ahmadinejad in … Council: "Through the years, this grim view (of Iran) is reinforced by the Iranian government's repression at home and its support…

May 22, 2008 – At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had some 45,000 nuclear warheads. At the moment, Iran has none. … Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. … But there is no reasoning with McCain and his allies, who yearn for the simple clarity of the Cold War.…

May 22, 2008 – Who becomes a general — and why — tells us a lot about whether our military is on the right or wrong track. … The Iraqi war is no exception. … The terrorist bands that sprung up during the occupation were at first dealt with through conventional tactics and weapons.…

May 22, 2008 – The long-deceased British prime minister -- remembered through the decades for his policy of appeasement and for the war with Hitler … As president, would he meet with the anti-American, anti-Semitic and seemingly delusional president of Iran, "without preconditions … To Obama, the term is redolent of that "divisiveness" that he abhors.…