Where Is the International Community When You Need It?
When we had last left the story of the ongoing tragedy in Western Sahara, the chief of police of the Polisario Front (the “liberation group” that has blocked a plan for autonomy put forth by Morocco...
View ArticleCAIR Explains to the Media: Shut Up
As I wrote yesterday, the Islamists – and their funders and enablers — have perfected the tactic of intimidating pundits and news outlets that stray from the pro-Islamist line. The Daily Caller...
View ArticleObama Justice Department Rocked
The former head of the Justice Department’s New Black Panther trial team, Chris Coates, testified Friday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. See here and here and here (subscription required)....
View ArticleDumbest Policy Response, 2010 Award
A significant mismatch of “policy” with “problem” arose yesterday in a speech by James Clapper, Obama’s new director of national intelligence (DNI), addressed to the audience of a Washington think...
View ArticleWhat Vietnam Should Teach Us About Iran
J.E. Dyer’s excellent post yesterday correctly noted that this week’s talks with Iran, like the previous rounds, will merely buy Tehran more time to advance its nuclear program. That the West would...
View ArticleDems Feel Betrayed by Their Leader
According to Politico: Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have never been worse, but it’s a feud that many in the White House quietly welcome. Obama’s advisers insist...
View ArticleThe Bracing Realism of Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke was, as the obits have it, a “giant of diplomacy.” Indeed, he has a claim to being one of the most influential diplomats in American history who never became secretary of state — a...
View ArticleChanging of the Ambassadorial Guard
With Richard Holbrooke’s death, questions will inevitably be asked about the fate of the post he held: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The job was created expressly for him on the...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Sabotage Helps Delay Inevitable
Outgoing Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s recent assessment that Iran won’t be able to build a bomb until 2015 appears to be further evidence that the sabotage campaign against the Iranian nuclear facilities...
View ArticleDon’t Ignore the Politics of Mossad’s Iran Assessment
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is clearly doing her best to defuse the bombshell dropped last week by Israel’s outgoing Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. During a visit to the Gulf states yesterday, she...
View ArticleWar Games Show U.S. Cannot Afford Defense Cutbacks
As if any more evidence were needed of the danger of defense cutbacks, Aviation Week has this sobering article reporting on a RAND simulation involving the possibility of conflict between the U.S. and...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Concern is growing over China’s advancing military capabilities. As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with civilian leaders in Beijing today, Chinese bloggers and news agencies produced photos that...
View ArticleTime Magazine Takes Its Israel Hatred to a New Level
Yesterday, I wrote that the recent controversial legislation at the Knesset would likely result in a full-fledged freak-out from the left over Israel’s supposed slide toward totalitarianism, and this...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from his former Mossad chief’s assessment that Iran won’t acquire a nuclear weapon before 2015: “‘I think that intelligence estimates are...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
The U.S. Department of State may drop Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as a bargaining chip to push the Sudanese government to recognize the south’s independence: “’Should the...
View ArticleThe Ninth Step
President Obama has recently taken eight steps toward the right. As Peter noted yesterday, Romesh Ponnuru listed six: (1) the tax deal; (2) selecting Bill Daley as chief of staff; (3) absolving...
View ArticleCivility Watch: Cohen Won’t Back Down on Comparing GOP to Nazis
In the wake of the Arizona shootings, the idea that this tragedy was to some extent the result of the lack of civility and verbal violence that has characterized political debates in the past two years...
View ArticleLebanon: Too Quiet?
As the situation goes from bad to worse in Lebanon, there are odd little signs. Chief among them are the comments made by Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal when he quit the Saudis’ mediation effort...
View ArticleMiddle East Optimism Requires Blinders
Optimism about peace between Israel and the Palestinians has always been a matter of religious faith rather than rational analysis. Every new proof that the process begun in 1993 with the Oslo Accords...
View ArticleThe Difference Between COMMENTARY and the Jewish Funds for Justice Rabbis
Earlier today, Alana wrote about the ad in today’s Wall Street Journal taken out by the left-wing group Jewish Funds for Justice in which the organization called for the News Corporation to “sanction”...
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