All That Is Necessary

Tag: Bush’s Third Term

  • Dumbest Headline of the Day, as the Afghanistan Speech Looms

    The true risk, and the reason some of us favored John McCain for the role of Commander-in-Chief, is that Obama and many Democrats seem intent on convincing us that America is NOT at war. This is why the indefensible decision to treat Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a criminal, rather than as an enemy, is so appalling.

  • Support the War, Mr. President — It’s Personal

    President Obama, the brave men and women of the United States armed forces are looking to see if you are committed to victory in Afghanistan. On Tuesday evening, I hope you’ll start showing them that you are.

  • Old Europe, an Unearned Nobel Prize, and a War of Necessity

    Our European allies clearly have no stomach for the fight. As America considers sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, even the (relatively) stalwart UK today announced plans to send… um… 500. As in Iraq, it will fall to the United States to achieve any victory (or even stability) in Afghanistan.

  • Time for Obama to Step Up in Afghanistan

    Now parts of the President’s party, desperately seeking a war to lose after being thwarted in Iraq, will turn up the pressure for surrender and retreat.

  • Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen Poll

    President Obama has slipped to the worst rating of his young presidency in the daily Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, weighing in at -11 points.  That’s based on likely voters with strong opinions.  He fares better when you look at total approvers vs. total disapprovers — although for the first time, or at least the first […]

  • The Perilous Implications of Bush’s Third Term

    While much of Barack Obama’s national security policy has, thankfully, looked like a continuation of the Bush administration, his rhetorical response to the crisis in Iran thus far contrasts sharply with what we would have expected from his predecessor. Bush turned the heat up under Iran by naming the regime to his “Axis of Evil.”  […]

  • Iran Looms Large in Bush’s Third Term

    Risking police violence in Tehran (Photo: mousavi1388) I’ve said that regarding foreign affairs, Obama has been serving Bush’s third term.  It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek perhaps, but there’s plenty of substance behind the label.  So I find myself wondering how the Obama Administration’s response to the turmoil in Iran will compare with what Bush might have […]

  • American Ideals in Bush’s Third Term

    President Obama sometimes sounds a lot like President Bush — and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo University, June 4, 2009: But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things:  the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are […]

  • Obama’s National Security Policy Looks Like Bush’s Third Term. Thank Goodness.

    Krauthammer today: The genius of democracy is that the rotation of power forces the opposition to come to its senses when it takes over. When the new guys, brought to power by popular will, then adopt the policies of the old guys, a national consensus is forged and a new legitimacy established. Exactly right.  I […]

  • Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You So

    President Bush salutes in front of General David Petraeus and Admiral William Fallon, September 2007, in Iraq President Obama today announced an Iraq withdrawal plan that George Bush would be proud to call his own. Actually, it IS Bush’s own. Don’t be fooled by the lawyerly language in his pledge to complete “the responsible removal […]