Category: Our Foreign Policy
The Delivery Presents – Eulogy for a Terrorist and the President’s PR Team
I decided to bend a show rule or two in Episode 92 because it commemorated a special occasion. How often will I get to do a whole hour on the death of one of the most notorious killers in world history? There were a few interesting aspects to the Abbottabad Raid story and I could [...]
The GOP House Intel Chair’s Stunning Display of Insult and Ignorance
I’ve never heard of Rep. Mike Rogers, Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, but I hope the next time I see his name in print it’s because he resigned his position. Obviously, he is not qualified to sit on any committee with the word “intelligence” anywhere in its title or mission. Republican House Intelligence [...]
The Left Celebrates Bin Laden’s Death in Unity and Patriotism and Not A Trace of Political…*snort*
Well, it certainly didn’t take long last night for a number of notable progressives to turn what should have been a moment of unifying national triumph into a left-wing partisan snark-off. I gleaned a few of the more egregious comments from some of the brighter lights of the left-wing commentariat as they posted them on [...]
Osama bin Laden is Now an Ex-Terrorist
The President finally made the announcement at about 11:30 PM, 90 minutes after the White House announced it would do so, and it is official. We have killed the murderous monster Osama bin Laden. According to the President’s statement (video link), we received intelligence last August about bin Laden’s location and worked the intelligence until [...]
Sources: Osama bin Laden is Dead. President: Still Trying to Organize a Press Conference About It
At about 10 PM Eastern, I caught the breaking news on Twitter that the White House had called a 10:30 PM Press conference that would involve major national security news. Speculation (and more than a few jokes) ran rampant for a half hour. I caught tweets that intelligence personnel had been recalled and the military [...]
Again, Ban Ki-Moon Will Vote “Present” on Human Rights
I’m going to go way out on a limb and suggest that it’s not a good thing for the UN Secretary General to vote “present” on the matter of human rights. The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders — but apparently not enough to stop [...]
President Obama’s Foreign Policy: In the Rear with the Gear
Both Mollie Hemingway and Paula Gardner noticed something very curious about a description of President Obama’s leadership style in a recent New Yorker article. Obama’s reluctance to articulate a grand synthesis “has alienated both realists and idealists,” Lizza writes. However, he “may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine.” One of Obama’s advisers describes his [...]
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