Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Did you know that the military has it’s own version of the inimitable Onion? For those unfamiliar with the Onion, it is a brilliant satire site — and frankly, in today’s world, it’s very hard to maintain satire when the reality in which we live is so ridiculous and bizarre.
Continue readingKeith Koffler has been around Washington, D.C., for a very long time, and he has a theory about Congress’s remarkable silence regarding both events in Syria and Obama’s huffery and puffery regarding events in Syria. Let me just say that his theory is not pretty. Indeed, it’s disgusting, and embarrassing,
Continue readingNobody says it better: I see the Obama “reset” is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything like the dictator who gassed his own people that the discredited warmonger Bush spent
Continue readingLast year, Obama and his acolytes were boasting about his “lead from behind” approach, one that saw him place America (and her interests) behind a UN-led line when it came to the Arab Spring. At the time, people at home and abroad wished that America, which still had something of
Continue readingA friend and I have been corresponding about Obama’s statement that tomorrow we will strike meaningless buildings in Syria to “punish” Assad for using nerve gas on his own people. We agreed that we agree. FWIW, were’s what I wrote to him: I am unnervingly reminded of the events leading
Continue readingMy long-time internet friend Steve Schippert (USMC, Ret.), who has an intelligence background, has weighed in on Syria. I feel quite flattered, considering his knowledge and expertise, that he feels as I do: In Syria, the most brutish forces are battling it out amongst each other in a civil war
Continue readingObama, the presidential candidate who promised not to get America into wars, is on the verge of inserting America into the tar baby to end all tar babies:* Syria’s civil war. A lot of people are asking why in the world he’s doing this. John Hinderaker thinks that Obama’s going
Continue readingIt seems that the absolute savagery in Syria is causing a few Arabs to revisit whether Israel and the Jews are really their enemies. I doubt a tipping point will happen any time soon, but maybe what’s going on in Syria is, for Arabs and Muslims, the equivalent of being
Continue readingBarack Obama chose to sit out the first two years of the civil war in Syria. When it started, he could have helped out the rebels before al Qaeda co-opted them, but he didn’t. Now, Syria is in a full-scale civil war with the Assad regime as the proxy for
Continue readingI’ve had the weekend to ponder the wisdom of Israel’s attack against Syria and I’ve concluded that she definitely made the right decision. I’ll set out my reasons below, but I’d love it if you’d chime in with challenges, further thoughts, etc. 1. In a day and age of “weapons
Continue readingSometimes one reads something and thinks “That’s it! That explains what’s been going on.” I do believe that Elliott Abrams is on to something when he discusses the administration’s approach to Syria, and his point is much larger than the already ugly fact that the president may have misspoken American
Continue readingI’ve been quiet about a lot of the revolutions in the Middle East. The only one as to which I was really vocal was the attempted revolution in Iran — and that was because I thought the uprising could only benefit America. That regime is so evil, that destabilizing it
Continue readingThe New York Times again gave a forum to Jimmy Carter. This time Carter defends his immoral, illegal decision to consort with terrorists, something that would be objectionable if the ordinary private citizen were to do it, but that rises to outrageous levels of indecency when a former President does
Continue readingMy view of the Annapolis talks has been that they will turn into something of a gang bang, with Israel, led by the inept Olmert, as the victim. I just know that Israel is going to concede and concede and concede, with nothing to show for the experience except a
Continue readingAs Saddam Hussein’s miles of documents are slowly being translated, more is being revealed about the WMDs: The gist of the new evidence is this: roughly one quarter of Saddam’s WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid 1990’s. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons
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