Recent Posts Tagged With 'foreign policy'

• Feel-Good Diplomacy

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 12:36 in china, terrorism, russia, foreign policy

  How’s that working out for President Obama?  Charles Krauthammer takes a look back at the past nine months and ticks off this administration’s biggest foreign policy initiatives. What’s come from Obama holding his tongue while ...

• Sometimes, You Need a Cowboy

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 11:49 in Middle East, iran, russia, foreign policy

  So how’s all that "capitulate to their demands and get them on our side" plan going?  Not so well, apparently. Denting President Obama’s hopes for a powerful ally in his campaign to press Iran on its nuclear program, Russia’s...

• The Nobel "They Like Me, They Really Like Me" Prize

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 10:40 in politics, Liberal, foreign policy

  That’s what the Nobel Peace Prize has become.  This was evident when Yassar Arafat won it in 1994 for pretending to go along with a peace agreement with Israel while continuing hostilities.  This was evident when Al Gore won it in 2007 for hi...

• Diplomacy With Iran, and Other Delusions

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 11:35 in Middle East, iran, foreign policy, United Nations

  From Eliot Cohen: Unless you are a connoisseur of small pictures of bearded, brooding fanatical clerics there is not much reason to collect Iranian currency. But I kept one bill on my desk at the State Department because of its watermark—an atom su...

• On Mending Our Fences in the World

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 11:03 in russia, foreign policy

  Supposedly, George W. Bush squandered all the goodwill we got from the world as a result of the 9/11 attacks.  Enemies became friends, the uncooperative became helpful, and all was right with the world, until Bush screwed it up.  What is fo...

• Engaging Iran

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 11:43 in Middle East, iran, foreign policy

  You can’t engage in diplomacy with an enemy would simply will not be negotiated with.  Case in point: The [Iranian] government appeared to fall back on a familiar playbook: trying to rouse Iranians through populist appeals against outside ...

• Back to the Future

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 11:47 in politics, education, conservative, Republicans, energy, abortion, military, economics, terrorism, foreign policy

  This was the title of a post on Redstate by Aaron Gardner, regarding where the Republican Party goes from here.  Gardner started, as his foundation of what the Republicans need to stand for, from the party platform of 1980, when Reagan was swept...

• Thoughts for Election Day

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 21:31 in war, Middle East, abortion, economics, iraq, terrorism, foreign policy

  Work and family have kept me from posting much lately, and today is the last shot before Election Day.  So here are my thoughts about the main issues for this election and why I think John McCain stands on the correct side of each of them. Abort...