The UN report on Israel by the anti Semitic UN Human Rights Council known as The Goldstone Report has been renounced as fraudulent by one of its namesake. Charles Krauthammer weighs in.
Archive for Category: "Foreign Policy"
Krauthammer blasts Goldstone retraction: Ranks with the 19th century ‘blood libel’ against Jews
Mr. Obama’s Libyan Adventure
From the 1860’s, Democrats have been a party ideologically averse to war, and yet the party most likely to get into a war without really knowing what they’re doing.
Are Unintended Consequences the Intention?
What’s the shape of our Transformed America? Looking at the government-induced government-sustained Great Recession, the unsustainable debt that grows every day, and the increasing over-extension of our military obligations the now repudiated doctrine of Too-Big-to-Fail may be our last best hope.
Michele Bachmann uncut – “This is beyond foolish” – Bachmann on Obama’s war
“This is beyond foolish” – Bachmann on Obama’s war. This is a 15 minute video of CNSNews interview with Michele Bachmann.
Clueless congress – Obama leaves lawmakers in the dark on Libya
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, faced a grilling in front of Congress over the Libyan campaign. Gates said Washington shouldn’t assist the Libyan rebels, and should instead leave nation-building to other countries.
Krauthammer on Libya: This is keystone cops
“Is this why we send our men and women into battle, to act as a celestial referee of a civil war” “They have not given any answer that is credible”
Obama expands his war to save face
The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing “all types of assistance” for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.
White House doesn’t care if we are helping al-Qaeda in Libya
[A] 2007 West Point study found that Libya accounted for one of the largest per-capita contributions to the foreign insurgency in Iraq.
Palin: Obama doctrine still full of chaos and question
Sarah Palin pummeled President Obama on his confusing speech tonight to the nation. The former Alaska governor told Greta Van Susteren, ” why in the world would our military might be used according to the UN and Arab League’s desires and NATO’s leadership in this skirmish or this war or whatever it is that Obama calls it?”
Libya ‘Not a Vital National Interest to the United States,’ Defense Secretary Gates Says
“No, no,” the Gates replied to ABC’s Jake Tapper. “It was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest — and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about