Summit Stratagems
Forgive me this stream of consciousness. I had another
topic in mind entirely for this column, but the live coverage of
this health care “summit” has distracted me all day. President
Obama’s superciliousness infuriates me; his insistence on
speaking each time between each speaker is outrageous; his
Democratic [...]
Summit Strategems
Forgive me this stream of consciousness. I had another
topic in mind entirely for this column, but the live coverage of
this health care “summit” has distracted me all day. President
Obama’s superciliousness infuriates me; his insistence on
speaking each time between each speaker is outrageous; his
Democratic [...]
America’s first "pacific" president?
President Obama declared in Tokyo that he is “America’s first Pacific president.” He thus displayed, simultaneously, his Obama-centric view of the world and his ignorance of American history and geography.
Asian countries have become understandably nervous about the Obama admnistration’s policy of “strategic reassurance,” whereby the U.S. tries to convince the Chinese that it [...]
"Strategic reassurance," but for whom?
Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal have noted that President Obama’s policy towards China is called “strategic reassurance.” The policy apparently consists of making gestures and concessions designed to convince the Chinese that the U.S. is an innocuous player on the global stage, or at least in the massive area China deems its sphere [...]
"Strategic reassurance" or "preemptive surrender"?
We’ve written with some frequency about President Obama’s misguided policy towards Russia, which Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal aptly describe as “trying to accommodate Moscow’s sense of global entitlement.” In practice, as Kagan and Blumenthal point out, this has meant “ignoring the continued presence of Russian forces on Georgian territory, negotiating arms-control agreements [...]
A Dogged Pursuit of the Truth
Like many Americans, President Obama did not personally know revered newsman Walter Cronkite. But as he delivered remarks at the trusted reporter’s New York memorial service, this simple fact did not seem to matter. Whether the living room belonged to a future American leader or an elderly couple in Nebraska, millions of people invited Cronkite [...]
