Tag: Obama
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“Barack Obama Better Be All In” on Afghanistan
At Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog, Peter Wehner assesses the prospects of success for David Petraeus, whom he calls one of the best generals “in our history”: What Petraeus also needs, apart from time, is the full support of the president and his team. Petraeus had that in Iraq with President Bush. There were no […]
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Obama’s Announcement on McChrystal Makes the Best of a Very Bad Situation
I share the gratitude Obama described for General McChrystal’s service. But what the hell was he thinking giving access to a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine? The threshold decision to participate in a story for an anti-establishment icon was an even bigger lapse of judgment than anything McChrystal or his aides said.
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Zakaria Lays the Right Oily Blame at the Foot of the Wrong Target
It’s up to Obama to keep the media tail from wagging the presidential dog.
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Biden Was Right About Obama’s “Great Achievement”
I assert that "not screwing up Iraq" is a non-trivial achievement — and certainly a much better outcome than many of us feared before the election.
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Honeymoon-Over Watch: He’s Lost MoDo
MoDoIf we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
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Civil Rights, and the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation
Not long after the Presidential election last year, the Web Goddess and I had dinner with four of our closest friends, who happen to be a black couple and a lesbian couple. There was exactly one McCain voter in the room.
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A Signpost in Mr. Obama’s War
From the San Diego Union Tribune. Hat tip: Navy for Moms.
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Not Quite the Clarion Call I Had in Mind, But…
With Guantanamo, Obama has already proven his ability to abandon a silly deadline. Once the troops are deployed, the boots on the ground will be real. The withdrawal date will be a goal.
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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.
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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.