Chatting up the Taliban, Part Three
As Michael Rubin has shown, the Clinton administration’s five-year engagement with the Taliban demonstrates the perils of substituting diplomacy for meaningful action against our sworn enemies. The U.S. got nothing from the Taliban, which refused to isolate, much less expel, Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, the Taliban bought time for itself and for [...]
Chatting up the taliban
In his State of the Union address, President Obama claimed that the U.S. had basically ignored the situation in Afghanistan during the 1990s. But as Michael Rubin shows in a disturbing article in Commentary, Obama’s account, as is so often the case when the president dabbles in history, is not correct. Rather, [...]
Learning from Hannah Rosenthal
Barack Obama’s appointed head of the State Department anti-anti-Semitism office is one Hannah Rosenthal. Like other Obama administration diplomats, Rosenthal has apparently decided that her real battle should be against Israel. Rosenthal made waves in Israel this week when she criticized Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren for failing sufficiently [...]
Did the Bush Administration Sit for 8 Months on a Request for Troops?
In the new issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Stephen F. Hayes debunks two Obama administration talking point on Afghanistan: “First, that the Bush administration had no real Afghanistan policy and failed for eight years to ask the important questions about the war there. And second, that the Bush administration ignored requests from commanders on the [...]
Obama’s Olympic Spirit
It would seem the Obama administration, which hasn’t had time to
hold conversations with senior military officials involved in
such a critical national security issue as the war in
Afghanistan, has been spending far more time assisting President
Barack Obama’s adopted hometown, Chicago,
than the White House has [...]
(Video) Diplomats From 11 Countries Walk Out On Ahmadinejad’s Speech
The U.S. was one of the eleven.
Kudos to President Obama for his rare showing of principle.
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