May 17, 2022 – and the Vietnam War, combined.   … The answer is: not much. … He wrote, “Unless and until China comes forward with convincing evidence that the lab-leak theory is wrong, the position of the United…

Oct 19, 2018 – The administration is giving itself little leeway to take serious measures to protest the killing, signaling to the world that the … It is the enemy of our enemy Iran, which, in political calculus, makes Saudis our "friends." … Iran is far more a direct threat to the kingdom than it is to the U.S.…

Nov 8, 2018 – The president many French were rebelling against at the time, Charles de Gaulle, is now considered the leader who "best embodies power … How interesting that the French president most strongly associated with anti-communism and anti-leftism is now considered to have been … by tossing a few more bucks at the problem.…

Nov 8, 2018 – The media, along with the deep state and many within the permanent bureaucracy, were bent on Trump’s destruction from the start. … since the Civil War. … The rift between left and right is so deep, it often seems America is at war with itself.…

Aug 15, 2014 – The theocracy ruling Iran has been at war with U.S. since it overran our embassy in 1979. … It is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, is responsible for a great deal of our soldiers’ loss of life in the Iraq war … Only total victory is going to gain us safety. The die is cast.…

Aug 15, 2014 – "It makes no sense for the West to support a war against Assad as well as a war against the Islamic State," they write, "Assad is evil … Crocker-Luers-Pickering also argue that the crisis calls for the United States to accept the nuclear deal with Iran that was on the … If we could work with the monster Stalin to defeat Hitler, is colluding with the Ayatollah beyond the pale?…

Aug 15, 2014 – (a contrast with Obama's condemnation of violence on both sides), that Iran has no "right to enrichment" (which Obama is conceding … The president who declared in June 2011 that "the tide of war is receding" and that the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "will come … than we have now -- the goals Obama says he is now pursuing.…

Aug 14, 2014 – The US sided with the weak states against China. The Chinese will remember this. … He is the first Prime Minister to visit the region since the war. … Kahwagi said that there would be no bargaining with the militants, but the Lebanese way is to bargain.…

Aug 13, 2014 – The Democrats are hoping that painting the Republicans as mean racists will help them with the Latino vote in November. … Rick Perry says that the number of apprehended illegal aliens who come from countries with "substantial terrorist ties" is at a record … the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border."…

Aug 12, 2014 – Gingrich added that since Americans were seized as hostages in Iran in 1979, "the United States has been at war with radical Islamists … There is much else in the Friedman interview that is laughable, such as the president's claim the news media are "Balkanized," meaning … Withdrawal and indifference is a policy for defeat, not only in Iraq, but in the wider war against terrorists.…

Aug 12, 2014 – war party, designed to panic us into launching a new war. … Graham says no force in the Mideast can stop ISIL without us. Is this true? … Who will trade with it? How will it hold the allegiance of peoples upon whom it is even now imposing terrorist rule?…

Aug 12, 2014 – And our country is more unstable than ever among the global community; Iraq is only symptomatic of the greater problem. … But a single professional review of Obama's personality profile could have shown us exactly what was in store for us with his leadership … "In contrast, when faced with the greatest economic crisis, the greatest levels of economic inequality, and the greatest levels of…

Aug 9, 2014 – This is the chilling reality of the war in which we continue to find ourselves, a reality that the American left --of which the president … did (and still do) a perspective that understood that we and the rest of the West are not at war with Islam but with a virulent, radicalized … not confuse people about the crucial fact that he is one with Bennis in worldview.…

Aug 9, 2014 – This brings us to Iran, the hidden hand behind the 2006 war, and at least to some degree behind the present war with Gaza, and the … After the deadline for reaching a permanent nuclear deal with Iran ran out last month, US President Barack Obama bought himself and … Unfortunately, the situation is made all the more complicated by the Obama administration’s strategic aim of appeasing Iran by enabling…

Aug 26, 2014 – What we need is diplomacy beyond the simple-minded, "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists!" … If Assad is willing to go in for the kill on ISIS, let us work out a truce and amnesty for the Free Syrian Army and call off that part … We should convey to Iran that an end to our cold war is possible if all attacks on the West stop and we work together to exterminate…

Aug 26, 2014 – With all of the back and forth between Congress and the White House on the Iranian nuclear deal, it is critically important for all … In order to understand the effect of the 1988 massacre, it is necessary to understand the historical context of 1980s Iran. … The shock of such a brutal and systematic massacre left the country paralyzed with fear, silenced and, at the same, anger.…

Aug 22, 2014 – The combination of ancient specialized guerilla tactics combined with high-tech laser guided air attacks are already once again at … work in the war against ISIS in northern Iraq. … The huge loss of life in this new round of fighting in Iraq is the direct result of Obama’s abysmally flawed politicized war planning…

Sep 5, 2014 – The crisis that ISIS poses is different from the one we faced with al-Qaida and most of the other Islamists in the war on terror. … The group has declared war on America. But does Obama have the guts to go to war against ISIS? … It surely is not the right thing to do to give Iran a nuclear deal in the hopes that Iran will do something to stop ISIS.…

Sep 4, 2014 – Balance means more ethnic and sectarian inclusiveness and a public tilt towards the US and away from Iran. … The tilt to the US is clearly intended to placate the Americans in order to obtain more and better military support. … The Kyiv regime has not disputed most of the claims. Instead it claims to be at war with Russia.…

Sep 3, 2014 – With Russian help it may even become deliverable. The Ukraine crisis is a child of Crimea. … Putin now implies a return of the damaging Cold War and, with it, threatens the freedom of other East European nations recently freed … That is where the real risks lie.…

Sep 2, 2014 – tensions with the U.S. … But the fact is that each country must fight to preserve freedom; otherwise, it will unravel one thread at a time. … That is exactly the boiling point the U.S. is at with radical Islam and other extremist powers in the world, and the only way out is…

Sep 1, 2014 – War from the air.  War without Congressional approval.  And war, in this case, with no clear strategic objective.   … at the time.   … But his cool demeanor, and the split-screen imagery of a president at play and at work, seemed ill-matched to the moment. …

Aug 30, 2014 – We may have laughed at the incompetence of the Obama Administration when it gave a "reset" button to the Russians that actually said … So naturally, Obama signaled the world that it was dumb to work with us by helping radical Islamists defeat Gaddafi. … that it will never use it. 2) The Bowe Bergdahl swap: There's a reason that it is our nation's policy not to negotiate with…

Aug 29, 2014 – Not voting your convictions about what is best for your country at war, so as not to antagonize the liberals in the Iowa caucuses? … First, this war in Syria and Iraq, like all such wars, is eventually going to be won by soldiers, by boots on the ground, by troops … including Iran, that is willing to send them the weapons to fight ISIS.…

Sep 17, 2014 – A US aircraft carrier was in the area at the time. … Meanwhile, on the 13th Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine is in a state of war with Russia. … Comment: It is difficult to reconcile the actions of Poroshenko with the statements of Yatsenyuk.…