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What Can History Teach About War?
An outstanding essay by Victor Davis Hanson is currently up on PJ Media here and here. It is a two-part (so far) study of the history of wars, and the interplay of Greek tragedy – victory leading to...
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Many People Believe They Are Only Sacrificing Israel
Faced with the unmasking of the neo-isolationist Obama and his Chamberlain-esque foreign policy (appeasement of enemies, abandonment of friends, and underfunding of defense), I cannot help but think...
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76 Senators Oppose Iranian Nukes; What about the Other 24?
Just when I am about to give up all hope that the US may finally stand up to the Iranian regime and their full-speed development of a nuclear Holocaust weapon, something positive happens. Led by...
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Montana’s Senators Defend Their Isolationism
I mentioned below that 24 US Senators, including both Montana Democrats, refused to join their 76 colleagues in urging greater pressure on Iran. Our ever-vigilant friend David Smith wrote to both of...
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Iran, Obama, Munich, and the US Senate
My friend David Smith is keeping the heat on Montana’s isolationist senators. Here is his latest letter. ————————————————- WHERE ARE BAUCUS AND TESTER ON IRAN? Last August, 76 of the 100 members of the...
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This Is A Sad Day
The US and Iran have agreed to a deal, one that will ease sanctions and effectively remove all military options from the table. In return, Iran will promise…something (yet to be determined). No...
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Chamberlain, meet Wendy Sherman
As soon as the deal with Iran was announced, many folks asked this question: How is this deal different from the 1994 deal with North Korea, a spectacular failure? It certainly looked a lot like the...
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Iranian Moderates, Then and Now
We are hearing much these days about negotiations with the new “moderate” Iranian leadership. What is an “Iranian moderate”? Let’s take a walk down memory lane. December of 2001, shorty after the 9/11...
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Napoleonic Appeasement
It is not easy to fathom the mindset that believes Obama has found a path to peace in our times. We call it appeasement because that is what Neville Chamberlain, its best-known advocate, proudly called...
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Not Giving Up Yet!
I was ready to give up this morning. How often can you say the same things over again? The elites of America and Europe are so hostile to their own history and values that they bow their heads...
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A French Lesson
File this under “Never Thought I’d See the Day…” French President Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly rebuked Obama’s airy internationalism in the face of the Iranian threat. The US media seems to have...
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Obama Deserves the Prize
President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and people are amazed. They should not be; in fact, Obama has earned the prize. In the blink of an eye he has moved the world’s only superpower firmly into...
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Agnostic about Genocide?
My friend Ben Finiti talks of having become a political agnostic, uncomfortable taking sides on many of the most contentious issues of our time. I feel the same – up to a point. I agree that many...
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Lead, Mr. President !
[An old union buddy of mine wrote the following letter to his local newspaper. I couldn’t have said it better myself. It would be a good thing if every concerned citizen did the same with his or her...
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Iran’s Underground Weapons Program Moves Underground
Lost in the (certainly justifiable, if premature) celebration of the imminent fall of the monster Gaddafi, the world seems to be underreacting to this disturbing AP news story from the Middle East:...
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The Arc of Appeasement: Germany and Iran
Once again, a rising military aggressor is bent on domination of its neighbors and holocaust of the Jews. And once again, the nations (in this case, one nation) which could stop them fails to act. The...
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Remembering Why They Hate Israel – and Us
I have not been a big fan of William Kristol. He often seems to derive too much enjoyment from being different and clever. I have always put great stock in Burke’s commitment to avoid such things:...
View ArticleA Simple Question
Why do Democrats (the McGovernite New Democratic Party, that is) so regularly beat up on our allies (see Hillary Clinton here getting tough with Israel), while turning on all their considerable charm...
View ArticleObama’s Isolationism Unveiled
OUTREACH TO ENEMIES, PUSHBACK TO ALLIES Health Care Reform and the recession have kept America’s attention firmly riveted on the new administration’s domestic direction. But something much bigger is...
View ArticleThe Next Holocaust
I have just finished reading an interesting and disturbingly timely book. Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust, by Theodore S. Hamerow, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin,...
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