Opinion Forum

We’re Surrounded and That Simplifies the Problem

November 17th, 2012

By Dan Miller At the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean Conflict, Marine Colonel (later Lt. General) Chesty Puller told his men “We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” We’re surrounded too and that may simplify things for us as well. Colonel […]

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Tags: Chosin, foreign policy, Iran, Israel, Korea, Middle East, nuclear weapons
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A Review of President Obama’s Middle-East Policies

November 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller That is, assuming that he has any. Barry Rubin’s review of President Obama’s Middle-East policies is excellent and summarizes many points that are often overlooked but must at least be considered. I can’t re-post his entire article, but here are just a few snippets: Imagine a U.S. president in the 1930s or […]

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Tags: appeasement, foreign policy, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Obama, policy
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President Obama Is Incompetent and the Unicorns He Rode In on Are Devious

July 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Unfortunately, he remains the President and the supposed head of the Democrat Party still in control of the Senate. We need to get past the debt limit mess, soon. On July 23rd, as they had on July 22nd and previously, the debt limit talks collapsed yet again with President Obama insisting on […]

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Tags: border, budget, China, debt limit, Latin America, Middle East, satire, unions
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Who Deserves Credit for the Arab Spring? Not Obama

May 19th, 2011

By Kevin Frei I will agree with Amir Taheri’s assertion in a column in the New York Post that the Obama Administration should receive no credit for the Arab Spring, but he overlooks giving credit to the Administration deserving of much of the credit for creating the conditions which allowed the “Arab Spring movements” to […]

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Tags: Arab Spring, Bush, democracy, foreign policy, Iraq, Middle East, monarchy
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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 […]

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Tags: Afghanistan, foreign policy, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Pakistan, Syria
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