Jan 29, 2014 – The Speech: Smart start to the speech by not proclaiming "The State of the Union is Strong …" or some variant. … in the balcony with his dad next to the First Lady. … The President's job approval is stuck in the low 40s. Obamacare is not going well. Unemployment is stubbornly high.…

Jan 25, 2014 – “In the view of the US administration, however, the US is consistent in trying to promote democratically elected government, despite … sacrifice and service of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in Iraq is over, the war in Afghanistan is winding down, al Qaeda … There is too much at stake for the United States and the West in the region.…

Jan 24, 2014 – *On Bush, post 9/11: " Had I been in office at the time, I’m not sure I would have differed with his approach." … "I believe it’s a mistake to cut off military assistance to the Egyptians at this point, because the future of the Middle East is so … He voted against the first Gulf War.…

Jan 22, 2014 – It added that Iran "is not conducting any further advances to its activities" at Natanz, Fordo or the heavy-water reactor under construction … Comment: The US insisted that Iran must be disinvited, which is odd because Iran has invested soldiers and treasure to support its … The problem with boycotts is they disenfranchise the opposition and distort the significance of popular votes.…

Jan 21, 2014 – "He ended one war and kept us out of any other," is the tribute paid President Eisenhower. … Ike ended the Korean conflict in 1953, refused to intervene to save the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and, rather than back the … Terrorism has returned to Egypt, the Sinai is now a no man's land, and almost all Egypt hates us now.…

Feb 7, 2014 – They are urging another look at air strikes. North Korea is warning that should the annual U.S. … The possibility of America being dragged into a new war is growing. … Dating back to the early years of the Cold War, in the 1950s, we signed treaties obligating us to fight for scores of nations on five…

Feb 5, 2014 – He is as partisan as Rush Limbaugh, just with a much, much smaller audience. (Remember the orange hunting vest? … (Most recently with Paul Ryan on the cut to the COLA of the career military.) … the policy towards Iran-- but never not focusing on the key issues of the day.…

Feb 3, 2014 – Kerry is reportedly admitting behind the scenes that the administration's entire Syria policy has failed in discussions with members … The last thing the president's political team wants is another national debate over an unpopular potential war. … Oh, and speaking of Iran, as one international agreement with an Middle Eastern enemy is disintegrating, the administration is seeking…

Feb 2, 2014 – What is it with liberals and the Koch brothers anyway? You guys are obsessed with them. … Today the Dow is at only 14,810. And Obama's term hasn't ended yet. … with Iran since the late 1970s?…

Jan 31, 2014 – For example, Carl von Clausewitz, the early-19th-century German military theorist, who famously said, “War is the continuation of politics … America is the strongest dream of the faithful and revolutionary men around the world. . . . … Which brings to mind two other Clausewitz quotes: “To secure peace is to prepare for war,” and “The best strategy is always to be very…

Feb 19, 2014 – where the peace has been forfeited and civil war begun again, Afghanistan where our scamper is underway and the Taliban is waiting … W, but most of the wrest of the wreckage is uniquely a work of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry tenure. … to Iran, pulled out of Iraq, played Spades with Reggie Love on the night of the bin Laden raid.…

Feb 19, 2014 – and installations in the event of a war with India. … Comment: Along with the collapse of talks in Geneva, the removal of Idriss signifies the failure of US policy at almost every level … For now, the US is on the sidelines in the Middle East.…

Feb 18, 2014 – The war in Iraq was more of the same. American troops won that war but our politicians lost the peace. … is it that Iraq's leadership took Iran much more seriously than it took the United States? … Today, the Iraqi government is much more accommodating to Iran than to the United States, despite the fact that Americans put them…

Feb 14, 2014 – It is now clear that until the next election at least, Republicans alone can't stop his power-mad constitutional assaults, so unless … great strides in moving us away from equal opportunity, which guarantees the most prosperity for the most people, and toward the goal … When will the frightened conservatives and the Democrats who can't possibly agree with this madness join us in opposing the theft of…

Feb 28, 2014 – Whether saber rattling or not, word is out that the White House is "rethinking its options" on intervening in the Syrian war. … Our frustration is understandable. Yet it does not change the reality. This is not America's war. Never was. … At the time of Rwanda we said, "Never again!" Yet it is happening again.…

Feb 27, 2014 – However, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based at Sevastopol under a leasing arrangement with Ukraine. … Russia's relations with Europe and the US have sustained a major setback. Russia-Ukraine war of words. Russia. … If Iran and Saudi Arabia are making long term contingency preparations for a Sunni vs Shiite showdown in the future, the US as well…

Feb 27, 2014 – "A red line for us," the president warned, "is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. … Assad moved over that American red line, using chemical weapons to gas his own people, and is now winning the war against the Syrian … with the Iranians.…

Feb 26, 2014 – First, it is the next stage -- after large US arms purchases -- in Saudi Arabia's preparations for an eventual war against Shiite Islam … Second, Saudi Arabia is reducing its reliance on the US for its defense and is diversifying its weapons sources. … While on the surface the Kyiv struggle is being described as a fight for freedom and rights, there is a significant incongruity in…

Feb 25, 2014 – Kessler points out, Monica Lewinsky, the intern who is half Bubba’s age and with whom Mr. … Kessler writes that “Clinton denied her claim at the time, but under oath in 1998 he acknowledged a sexual encounter with her.” … campaigns against her and other women linked to her husband and that “Hillary Clinton is the real war on women.”…

Feb 20, 2014 – The fact that it was beginning in Iran was not the point. … He is today professor emeritus at Princeton University and the UN’s “special rapporteur” on the Palestinian territories. … Which brings us to the present: As negotiations with Iran resume this week, President Obama and his envoys continue to believe that…

Mar 11, 2014 – His CPAC speech is described by the L.A. … While China is indeed moving to claim the East and South China seas, bringing her into possible conflict with Japan over the Senkakus … A showdown between non-interventionists and the neocon War Party, to determine which way America goes, is long overdue.…

Mar 10, 2014 – Guess what, you anachronistic idealists: First: he had to contend with an existential foe in the Soviet Union, a war he won without … President, the 80s called. They're worried. They want to teleport us a president with foreign policy skill and judgment. … At least it used to be. This is worse than the 70s. But here's the thing.…

Mar 6, 2014 – Obviously the situation has now caught up with us and everyone who was on the wrong side of history is delicately eating crow. … The thing that people who want us to stop gloating are missing, even as they acknowledge it happened, is the importance of Sarah Palin … the same nonsense narrative that Russia was no threat even as Putin defied us with Iran, relations continued a downward slope and…

Mar 5, 2014 – For us, war was unthinkable. … war in Vietnam simply to prove that the Democrats could be trusted with national security. … So now, another Russian leader is playing cat-and-mouse with an American president -- and guess who's the mouse?…

Mar 5, 2014 – Putin is portrayed at home as man of action, the strongman of Russia who tames bears and conquers other wild beasts, sometimes with … Like at the famous 2012 photo-op in Seoul with Putin's acolyte, Dmitry Medvedev. … "Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."…