And you thought Joe Biden was a liar
Check this out. Here’s Barack Obama at the foreign policy debate on Monday night: “First of all, the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will...
View ArticleMore lies, more scandal, more politics: Benghazi
Last week, I posted a timeline of events on September 11 that made clear that the White House had every reason to suspect that the assault on US facilities in Benghazi was an act of terror and not a...
View ArticleBeef jerky and the nation’s defense
So, Senator Coburn, if only the Pentagon stopped funding beef jerky, we’d have enough to pay for the deficit or something? We could save $67 billion? And what about those who say we ought to cut a...
View ArticleReaping what we sow: A Middle East afire
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. I’m usually not big for quoting the Bible, let alone using it as a political guide. But these words of wisdom...
View ArticleWhat was Hamas thinking?
Can Hamas win militarily against Israel? Of course not, and while Hamas’ leaders are certifiably bad men, they are not obviously stupid. But their aim isn’t to win, it’s to be relevant in the modern...
View ArticleObama, Gaza, and the coming peace process
An Egyptian-brokered cease fire between Israel and Hamas has just been announced (and denied). Peace process soon to follow. Mark my words. Hillary Clinton is winging her way to the Middle East today...
View ArticleIs Morsi the new pharaoh?
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s decision late last week to exempt his own decrees from judicial review was greeted with satisfaction by those who opposed Mubarak’s ouster and see the Muslim...
View ArticleEndgame in Syria
The Assad regime is on its last legs. More than 40,000 Syrians have been murdered, and the Obama administration suspects that in a last ditch effort to hang on to power, Assad may use chemical weapons....
View ArticleSigh, John Kerry
It’s hard to like John Kerry. Ask the other 99 members of the US Senate. His staff. The American people. But it is a testament to Obama’s other dreadful nominations floated for national security jobs...
View ArticleThe latest on Hagel
I am hearing around town that Chuck Hagel could get the nod for the SecDef nomination as early as Monday. (I’m also hearing he’s about to get dumped.) Seems almost impossible that Obama will go with...
View Article8 questions for Chuck Hagel
Despite strong bipartisan opposition (bipartisanship!), Barack Obama has reportedly decided to plunge ahead and nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense....
View ArticleChuck Hagel: Democrat, gun lover, abortion hater
Can someone answer this question: Whom has Chuck Hagel not offended? There’s the GOP… Let’s face it, no one likes an apostate. There are the Jews and the pro-Israel community (which is made up of Jews,...
View ArticleDon’t like Chuck Hagel’s views? Wait a few
“Courage”: A word we hear tossed around promiscuously about Chuck Hagel. About his Vietnam career? Nope. About personal travails? Nope. Chuck Hagel is a “courageous” man because he changes his mind. A...
View ArticleChuck Hagel, anti-Semite?
It has been suggested that Chuck Hagel is an anti-Semite. It has also been suggested that it is an outrage and a smear to call Barack Obama’s nominee to be secretary of defense an anti-Semite. For my...
View ArticleChemical attack in Syria? Whatever
Yesterday evening, Josh Rogin over at FP’s The Cable dropped a bombshell of a story: The Assad government, US government investigators have concluded, likely used chemical weapons in Homs on December...
View ArticleThe White House’s parallel universe
What relieves me about 2013 is how well things are going around the world. If ever there was a time for the US to reap a peace dividend, it is now. If ever there was a time to turn from the world and...
View ArticleThe Israeli elections: Nothing to see here
Israelis headed for the polls today, with turnout higher than it has been in a decade. The consensus among Israeli pundits is that incumbent Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is headed for victory, albeit...
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Obligatory Israel moves left post
Shutterstock Looks like Bibi Netanyahu miscalculated when he called early elections. Surprise, surprise, the Israeli electorate stuck it to a man they find competent but just can’t, no matter how hard...
View ArticleHagel flip-flops
This is being circulated on Capitol Hill by Sen. Cornyn’s office. It’s an amazing document, a litany of flips and flops and twirls and somersaults, the likes of which have rarely been seen… Hagel...
View ArticleThe Senate and Chuck Hagel
Much has been revealed about Barack Obama’s nominee to be defense secretary in recent weeks. A quick rundown: He thinks Palestinians are kept “caged like animals” by Israel He is not “an Israeli...
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