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Congratulations, Mr. President: Chapter 2 of My Quadrennial Search for Silver Linings
5 comments on Congratulations, Mr. President: Chapter 2 of My Quadrennial Search for Silver LiningsIf you had to win, I’m deeply relieved that Florida doesn’t matter this time. But once again, you’ve inherited a mess from your predecessor.
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Gaddafi: “Another One Bites the Dust”
I still find it astonishing and inconsistent that Mr. Nobel Peace Prize entered a war of choice in Libya. But as VDH said, “the only thing worse than starting a stupid war is losing it,”…
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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).
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War and Peace in a Complicated World
Indonesians marked the occasion by unveiling a statue of the Obama Child, swaddled in T-shirt and shorts, embarking on his earthly ministry with the predestined Nobel medallion draped around his neck.
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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…
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The “Obama Silver-Lining Watch” and the Nobel Peace Prize
At first blush, the Nobel Prize may seem to make it harder for an Obama administration to do anything involving a projection of American military power. But there’s another way of looking at it. While…