Opinion Forum

Failed Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration

April 28th, 2011

By Tom Carter Mismanaged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, inept responses to Libya, silence on Syria, failure in the Middle East peace process. President Obama continues to demonstrate that he isn’t up to the job. President Bush botched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in several ways. Most everyone understood the reasons for invading Afghanistan […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, foreign policy, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Pakistan, Syria
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Time to Declare Victory in Libya?

April 3rd, 2011

By Dan Miller On April 3rd, the United States will cease most Libya related kinetic military action unless somebody in NATO asks for more. It has not yet been decided whether to supply arms to the rebels there. They may have depleted their supplies by shooting into the air; they were either celebrating something, made a […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: air strikes, Congress, Libya, Obama, rebels, satire, supply arms, victory
Categories: General, Military, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Is It Already April Fools’ Day?

April 1st, 2011

By Dan Miller This story from the South Korean Chosun Ilbo reports that Seoul and Washington have agreed that the chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff will command support troops from the U.S. in case of a provocation from North Korea, a government source said Thursday. “The South Korean and U.S. militaries […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Canada, command, Libya, NATO, South Korea, U.S. troops, UN
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The Antioch Doctrine and the War in Libya

April 1st, 2011

By Tom Carter Antioch College died in 2008 but is expected to rise from the dead like Lazarus this year or next. It was for many years the exemplar of ideal leftist education — not much learning, not much time in classes, but lots of leftist consciousness and revolutionary zeal. The Obama Administration seems to […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: al-Qaeda, Antioch, Clinton, Libya, power, rebels, Rice, U.S. interests, war
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Gaddafi’s Stash: Obama Again Finds the Way in a Crisis

March 29th, 2011

By Dan Miller President Obama, well known for his uncanny ability to walk, chew gum and juggle, has found in Libya a solution to the worst crisis facing the United States and has thereby demonstrated that he can indeed do those things and more, all at the same time. El Presidente Chávez of Venezuela has […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: budget cuts, Chavez, Gaddafi, Libya, oil, satire, shutdown, stash, Venezuela
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