Tag: Mr. Obama’s War
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Iraq: Mission Accomplished!
Quick reaction on my lunch break: We won. Yes, there are pitfalls and concerns on the road ahead, but it’s one heck of a lot more appropriate now to declare the war “won” than it was for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to declare in 2007 that “this war is lost.” Obviously it was Bush […]
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Hope Burns a Bit Brighter for a Positive Ending in Libya
Today is my birthday, and the entire Northeast seaboard is preparing for Hurricane Irene. So what’s on my mind on this Kirk-and-Irene-focused day? Libya, of course. Specifically, whether President Obama deserves any credit for what tentatively seems to be shaping up as a reasonably OK outcome.
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Why Libya But Not Syria? For That Matter, Why Iraq But Not Libya?
How do we justify allowing Assad to kill his own people after taking up arms against Gadhafi for doing the same thing? Syria — with its ties to Iran, its support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and its recent history of shuttling terrorists into Iraq to kill Americans — is if anything a more odious and important enemy than Libya.
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Astonishment at Obama’s War-Making Overwhelms Consideration of the Merits of It
It was nearly three years ago that Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, in part on the strength of having the purest "surrender-at-any-cost" position on Iraq. Who then could have predicted the following headline: "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Enters Third War"?
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Libya, Where the French Lead the Way
It’s like I’ve emerged from a coma into a parallel universe, where the United Nations takes a leadership role in a crisis, and the French — the French! — back up their stern words with military action.
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No Easy Choices in Libya
I’m sympathetic to the idea of a no-fly zone in Libya. But while Obama has escalated in Afghanistan and declined to follow through on his campaign promise to surrender in Iraq, it’s hard to imagine this administration starting a brand new war. And enforcing a no-fly zone is an act of war.
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Channeling His Inner Neocon: Did the Nobel Speech Launch the Obama Doctrine?
I may have been too quick to sneer yesterday at President Obama’s appearance in Oslo. He used his acceptance speech to issue a ringing declaration of American exceptionalism (although he would not use that term).