Here the Cato Institute’s director of foreign policy studies, Justin Logan outlines why the Middle East still doesn’t matter. Nonetheless, three fears have turned this small, poor, weak region into the central focus of U.S. foreign policy: oil, Israel and terrorism. Each of these concerns merits attention, but nowhere near the amount they have received […]
Archives for November 2014
“Enough is Enough” Warren Strikes Again
Even her own party must be fed up with Elizabeth Warren. Is there a more poorly informed or more unstable member of the Senate? Here the NYT exposes Warren’s misguided attack against Antonio Weiss’ nomination for under secretary of Treasury. Yet Ms. Warren’s wrath is misdirected, and her understanding of the so-called inversion deal on […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
From National Review’s Jim Geraghty — “It’s Thanksgiving. Be Thankful. And Happy.”
Good Morning from the Florida Keys
An Obamacare Mea Culpa
“Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them. We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem: health-care reform.” — U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer Read more here from the WSJ on why Chuck Schumer—a leading Democratic ideologist—is now admitting that instead of jamming the O’Care fiasco down voters […]
Obama to Adapt with McCain?
Having McCain head Armed Services is a little akin to inviting Freddy Krueger to run your kids’ Halloween party. Here the WSJ champions the neocon course that wrongly put the U.S. into the Middle East quagmire we are in in the first place. Mr. Obama could likewise adapt with the help of a GOP Senate. […]
Greetings at Sunset in the Keys
Obama’s Gutless Hagel Dumping
Americans recently voted resoundingly against Policy Obama. And what does this washed-up president do? Slaps Americans in the face with a vote-buying, unilateral executive action on immigration. And now Obama throws defense chief Chuck Hagel under the bus. The man who is responsible for the foreign policy mess we are in today resides in the […]
Sharia—the Threat to America II
This exhaustive expose is a report of Team B II at The Center for Security Policy. In the spirit of due diligence, I would tell readers that most often I am not on the same foreign policy page as is the publisher and associate author of Shariah the Threat to America. Frank Gaffney Jr., a […]
US Airstrikes Kill 900 in Syria/Iraq Fighting
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, one of the more accurate chroniclers of the war in Syria, has reported that so far the airstrikes carried by U.S. forces against ISIS have killed over 900 people. Most were militants, though by SOHR’s count, 52 were civilians. Hundreds of thousands overall have died in the fighting. SOHR […]
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