Jun 29, 2011 – What links the Arab Spring rebellions with political agitation in China and at least another five dozen simmering or emerging crises … However, the common human fire in these disparate struggles is intense disgust with embedded corruption. … Corruption is innate to the human condition. To paraphrase Walt Kelly's cartoon character, Pogo, the enemy is us.…

Jun 24, 2011 – He said the drawdown would continue 'at a steady pace' until the United States handed over security to the Afghan authorities in 2014 … The political realities for the President (and the GOP challengers) is this: Americans are very, very weary of waging war. … Is the President's timetable for Afghanistan the correct one?…

Jun 21, 2011 – Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. … The war in Libya is a sign that things are changing. … Not only is he unwilling to delay the withdrawal of combat troops. Obama is suing for peace with the Taliban.…

Jun 20, 2011 – specific legal advice from lawyers at the Pentagon and his own administration's Office of Legal Counsel regarding the US military's … involvement in Libya and the War Powers Act:   President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the … The OLC is typically called “the president’s law firm” because it’s tasked with advising him on what he can and can’t legally do with…

Jul 7, 2011 – On Tuesday, June 28th, outside the holy city of Qom, the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran test-fired 14 ballistic missiles, including … For the rest of us, they should raise just two: Do Iran and North Korea represent threats we should take seriously? … It’s now a decade behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget with Americans on the hook to pick up at least half the…

Jul 1, 2011 – Since the success of the Palestinian initiative is entirely dependent on the US Security Council veto, by acting as he is, Obama is … The only thing that is important is that the US abides by the limitations dictated by the UN Security Council resolution. … UN Security Council, rather than the US Congress, is the source of authority for US military action.…

Jul 1, 2011 – The Taliban threw everything they had at us. … forces and Drug Enforcement Administration agents from the mountains north and east of Jalalabad to the western border with Iran and … For days afterward, the potentates of the press described the event as "proof the Taliban can attack at will" and evidence "the Karzai…

Jul 18, 2011 – next to Israel and at peace with the Jewish state. … The goal of that war is to destroy what's left of Israel after the "peace" treaty and gobble it into "Palestine." … The second option is for Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, complete with its hostile Arab population.…

Jul 12, 2011 – And then maybe together the Israeli and the US governments might have set about fixing at least some of the damage the war caused them … More generally, by refusing to take sides, the US is in fact siding with its enemy Iran and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah against its ally … But again, what the last war taught us is that this sort of behavior is what emboldens aggressors to attack.…

Feb 3, 2011 – The question is how -- or whether -- Islam can exist within an Egyptian government that is at peace with its neighbors and respects … Since the Iraq War, however, in Middle Eastern countries where some semblance of free elections have been held (with the exception … observed the nightmare regime that replaced the Shah of Iran and say, "Not us.…

Feb 1, 2011 – hated dictator President Mubarak.On the other hand, Israel is appalled at the US's willingness to dump Israel's only friend in the … Disgracefully, as big issues with enormous repercussions are at stake, the NY Times worries about the PR problems that Egypt is causing … is actually going to result in a policy that prevents the US from "losing" Egypt to radicals -- and either distorting or squelching…

Feb 1, 2011 – It is the next scene in a long-running play whose final act is the domination of the world by radical Islamists. … The group's goal is to impose Islam on the world; its motto is: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. … To do otherwise dulls the senses and lulls us all into a false sense of security, which is exactly what our enemies want.…

Feb 1, 2011 – It is the next scene in a long-running play whose final act is the domination of the world by radical Islamists. … The group's goal is to impose Islam on the world; its motto is: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. … To do otherwise dulls the senses and lulls us all into a false sense of security, which is exactly what our enemies want.…

Feb 18, 2011 – "We who are outside of the situation pray for and are partners with people inside the situation, and God is working through both of … Emetuche, assistant professor at NOBTS, fears that if Gbagbo is removed by the military, citizens from countries caught in the crossfire … "The possibility of more violence is great and reminds us that many more people could die without ever knowing the Gospel of Christ…

Feb 17, 2011 – , is strangling Kemalism and the Turkish military no longer has the strength to break its grip. … And in Arabia, the long-ruling al-Saud family fights terrorism with one hand and funds it with the other. … They know that even with guns and skills made in America they likely would lose were they to attack people whose back is against the…

Feb 15, 2011 – It looks like the Russians fooled us again in nuclear treaty negotiations. … The whole notion of free trade with China is dishonest. … persuading us to harmonize our patent law with foreign laws, down to the levels of unfair European and Japanese systems.…

Feb 14, 2011 – It looks like 2/11/11 will go down in history with 11/9/89, not 6/4/89. 6/4/89 is when the Chinese military obeyed orders to massacre … In contrast, the mullah regime in Iran is developing nuclear weapons to threaten Israel and other American allies within missile range … The danger now is that 2/11/11 will have an outcome like that of 2/11/79, the day of the fall of the Shah of Iran.…

Mar 1, 2011 – This is the same Muslim Brotherhood whose motto is, "Allah is our objective; the prophet is our leader; the Koran is our law; Jihad … governments had fallen in line with the Soviet-Arab propaganda war. … that the Islamic war against Israel is itself a proxy war for global jihad.…

Feb 25, 2011 – While excoriating Obama and the US, the PA is actively wooing Hamas. … At the same time as he publicly beseeched Hamas to join forces with Fatah, Fayyad announced that the PA is willing to forgo US financial … The direct military cost of the Second Lebanon War is estimated at $2.2b.…

Feb 24, 2011 – The Arab Revolt is back, this time with Arab leaders. … Or at least a leadership vacuum as the world waits to see what will emerge, or if the new bosses will be just the old bosses with different … But the Arabists at the State Department, who failed to foresee this new Arab Revolt, now seem unable to come up with a policy to address…

Feb 24, 2011 – In other words, the issue that the UN considers most critical in the world at this hinge moment in history is that Israelis have been … Hamas, Hezbollah and the theocratic rulers of Iran have been candid: Creation of a Palestinian state is, at best, a secondary goal. … That does not imply that another war with Egypt is imminent or even inevitable.…

Feb 22, 2011 – his principles and the US alliance with Israel. … He did not state that the US is ending its training of the Fatah forces. … the US alliance with the Saudis.…

Mar 8, 2011 – Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two. … And if we attack Libya, an act of war, we have to see that the war is won. … What is the theme, where is the consistency in U.S. policy?…

Mar 4, 2011 – from Libya – without UN approval, it is apparent that the US will not use armed force against Iran for as long as Obama is in power … The only chance of preventing Iran from plunging the region into war and bloodshed is if the regime is overthrown. … Iran is the primary regional engine of war, terror, nuclear proliferation and instability.…

Mar 3, 2011 – Iran is close to getting a nuclear weapon. … All the unrest reminds us that today's supposed friend is tomorrow's possible enemy -- with no certainly about who will end up with … height of the Cold War.…