Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Losing sight of the bigger picture

In the last 24 hours, I have had three conversations with otherwise diehard conservatives ceding the election to Obama because they cannot get excited about McCain.

So let me get this straight: because McCain has been a centrist on issues like immigration, campaign finance, and social programs, you are going to let one of the most liberal candidates ever to run for the White House win instead? […] Continue reading

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22:23 What part of yes or no…

Who asks a politician a “yes or no” question and expects that kind of an answer? -=DLH=-

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22:09 WWII began in Poland. Why didn’t we liberate them first?

Speaking of Obama incompetency, his insistence that the war against fundamentalist terrorism is limited to fighting in Afghanistan shows he does not understand the global scope and reach of enemies like al Qaeda. Whatever the connection between Iraq and al … Continue reading

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22:04 So where was the moral obligation to Iraq?

Who would not have intervened in the Holocaust? By Obama’s spoken standard, we should have intervened in Iraq solely because he was murdering hundreds of thousands of his own people, including by the use of chemical weapons. So which is … Continue reading

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9-12

In the early days after 9-11, the history was clear. The world understood that the United States had to find and eliminate the people responsible for launching and supporting that attack. The world rallied to the US cause.

As time went on, however, a new history began to develop. It became apparent that the US’s place in the world was beset not just by the likes of al Qaeda, but also by the forces of other nations that considered the US an enemy and even by some nations who publicly called the US a friend. The world started making excuses. […] Continue reading

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