Archive for 'Foreign Affairs'

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

How Craven Are The Democrats In Their Know-Nothing Appeasement of Economic Illiteracy?

So craven that Nancy Pelosi will rewrite the rules in the middle of the game to prevent consideration of a free-trade pact she helped craft in a blatantly obvious attempt to curry favor with protectionist progressives:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that Democrats will seek to delay consideration of a trade agreement with […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

So, What About Iraq?

For a war supporter, I suppose my silence on the renewed violence in Iraq has been deafening, but not for the reasons you might think.  I’m not afraid to admit that my heart sank at the news that al-Sadr’s truce might be off, and God knows we’ve all had enough killing.  I’ve kept my silence […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

War With Iran Is Immiment - Or Maybe Not

I’m late on highlighting this, but with the resignation of Admiral Fallon, top military man in the Middle East, last week, tongues started wagging again about our plans re:Iran. Widely quoted was this Terry Atlas U.S. News piece giving six reasons we may be going to war with Iran.
In the Washington Post, William Arkin […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Israel, Iran, Iraq, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Brookings Institution: Iraq Is Making Political Progress, Too

The latest liberal talking point on Iraq goes something like this: sure, the surge worked, militarily (as if they had said that at the beginning, instead of arguing that more troops would lead to even greater violence), but Iraq has made zero progress politically, so it’s been a waste, and yes, we should bring the […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Vitally Important Day, Electorally Speaking…

…and we should be getting some results soon.  If there is late momentum, it’s seems to be going Hillary’s way, ironically enough because of NAFTA, a subject of great interest around these parts as of late.  Obama did the wrong thing by pandering to Ohio natives about NAFTA, then did the right thing by sending […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Foreign Affairs, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Republican Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

When This Blog Engages Barack Obama…

…you can be sure it will be on the issues.  This is not the home for slanderous rumors of the sort that are swirling around his candidacy, nor will I allow these sorts of items to go unchallenged in the comments.  You know the kind of nonsense I’m talking about - there’s no need to invite […]

34 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

An Important Article

We’re going to have to deal with the prospect of a possible Barack Obama presidency sooner or later.  We’ll have plenty of opportunity to dwell on the historic nature of his candidacy, as well as the ‘rock star’ aspects of the Obama juggernaut.  I want to focus on policy for the moment, though, particularly on […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Barack Obama, Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Republican Candidates, John McCain, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Another Baghdad Miracle

A day after it snowed in Baghdad for the first time in 100 years, much to the delight of the locals, another equally improbable thing has been reported: real progress towards reconciliation by the Iraqi parliament.
Iraq’s parliament voted Saturday to give jobs back to thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party who were […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Iraq by Mark

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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

How To Spot A Hack

Those who waved (and continue to wave - see McGovern, George) the Lancet’s 600,000+ excess-Iraqi-deaths number around as a blunt instrument to strike down defenders of the Iraq War had one advantage over us: they could point to the ’statistically sound’ methodology and fall back on arcane statistical niceties while we could only say “It’s […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

When It Comes To Iraq, Dems Can ‘See No Good’

So says the Washington Post editorial board:
AT SATURDAY’S New Hampshire debate, Democratic candidates were confronted with a question that they have been ducking for some time: Can they concede that the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq has worked? All of them vehemently opposed the troop increase when President Bush proposed it a year ago; […]

25 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Iraq, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008 by Mark

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

Lancet Study Re-Re-Re-Revisited

I was somewhat excited to see that National Journal, hardly a voice of the right wing, was taking on the Lancet study of 2006 that claimed that Iraq had suffered 179.63 million excess deaths because of the U.S. invasion (okay, well, about 700,000).  I never believed it then, and I don’t believe it now.
Ultimately, though, […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Second Casualty of Pakistan Tragedy: Mike Huckabee?

There are many, many reasons I could never support the modern Democratic party - their embrace of the unions that are killing our public schools and auto industry, their protectionist nonsense, and their general warmth towards big government spending (this is not to ignore the big government spending of some modern Republicans, the present administration […]

56 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Mike Huckabee, Foreign Affairs, 2008 Polls by Mark

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Good News So Far For Longhorn Fans…

…as Texas has a 28-10 halftime lead over Arizona State in a Holiday Bowl that the Texas  coaches have taken very seriously indeed.  Horrible news today, though, with the murder of Benazir Bhutto.  I actually got a little teary-eyed when I saw the headline, as this served as a blunt reminder of just how brutal […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Foreign Affairs, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

TIME’s Person Of The Year

I’m shocked it’s not Al Gore, but the choice is an intriguing one…and the reasons he is the choice are quite unfortunate.  Who is it?
Read on…

9 Comments » - Posted in Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Saturday, December 15th, 2007

As Iraq Fades, Huckabee and Obama Rise

Curious as to why the opening vote in Iowa on January 3rd may go to Obama and Huckabee rather than Hillary and Romney, as presumed for so long?  Peter Beinart says it’s because Iraq has settled down:
The reason Iraq is fading is simple: Not as many people are dying there. Fewer deaths mean fewer front-page […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Republican Candidates, 2008 Polls, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Waterboarding A-OK When Bush Was Popular And No One Knew

More hypocrisy from Congressional Democrats:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

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Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Want My Support For The War? You’ll Have To Pay For It

No wonder Democrats who are against the war are so upset with the current Democratic leadership…after repeatedly vowing to end the war, then repeatedly vowing not to fund the war without a date certain for withdrawal, the Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to pass a war funding bill with no timetables for […]

5 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Why The Change On Iran? Some Details Emerge

Good piece from David Sanger in this morning’s NY Times on the events that led up to the changed NIE on Iran’s nuclear ambitions:
American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development […]

37 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

You Can’t Have Your Cake…Etc., Etc.

As the impact of the Iran NIE sinks in, it is apparent that some folks are so set on absolving Iran that they ignore the ‘high certainty’ of the estimate that Iran DID, in fact, have a nuclear weapons program until 2003, and the ‘high certainty’ that they could start it back up pretty much […]

38 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

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Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Two Surprises

I must say, I am astonished that emerging tyrant Hugo Chavez is letting (for now, at least) a quite public rebuke of his rule stand:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez suffered an unprecedented defeat after voters on Sunday rejected a constitutional package of 69 reforms that included scrapping presidential term limits and declaring Venezuela a socialist state. […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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