If George F. Kennan Met Osama bin Laden
“Did George Kennan know the best way to fight terror?” is the question asked by a New York Times op-ed today. My question in return is: why is so much that appears on the op-ed page of our leading...
View ArticleHuck’s Confused on National Security
It’s something of an understatement to say that Mike Huckabee, now leading polls in Iowa, has a national security problem. This is from a CBS News story covering the former Arkansas governor in Des...
View ArticlePower Games in Gaza
I’m with you, David, in thinking that what is going on in Gaza is mysterious. Here’s another way to look at it: Israeli action is constrained by two major factors. On one side, the government must do...
View ArticleMore Clinton Collapse
ABC News has video of a run-down, rambling Bill Clinton unloading on Barack Obama. When asked about Hillary strategist Mark Penn’s premature claim that Obama got no “bounce” coming out of Iowa, the...
View ArticleIdentity Hits the GOP
An article at Politico quotes Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway: Republicans will need to exercise less deafness and more deftness in dealing with a different looking candidate, whether it is a...
View ArticleLots Of Blame To Go Around
This, in the latest of the “what went wrong?” stories, is a helpful guide to the many errors and faults of Clinton campaign guru Mark Penn, famed for perfecting the art of micro-trending (i.e. slicing...
View ArticleA Little Worried?
Barack Obama added this to his otherwise rather standard election night speech on Tuesday: I owe what I am to this country I love, and I will never forget it. Where else could a young man who grew up...
View ArticleA Kuwaiti Voice Speaks up against Iran
A top Kuwaiti strategist has asserted that the Arab world would be best off if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Interviewed in the daily Al Siyassah (as reported in Ha’aretz), Sami...
View ArticlePreview
If you want to know what Hillary’s strategist, Harold Ickes, might whisper in the ears of superdelegates if she decides to stay in and fight, here is a good taste. Nothing quite beats Paul Begala...
View ArticleSomething New for McCain
Matt Dowd, the former strategist for George W. Bush’s election who later broke very publically with Bush, suggested that John McCain himself needs to break dramatically with the President. Dowd...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Odd that Saudi Arabia isn’t contributing anything to Haiti, or even covering it on English-language state news. “It seems it was God’s little joke to hand the greatest supplies of oil and natural gas...
View ArticleBrown on Terrorism
We remarked last night that the Christmas Day bombing and the Massachusetts candidates’ differing reactions may have been more telling than political observers imagined. The Scott Brown campaign...
View ArticleLeslie Gelb: We Need Better Advisers Because Obama Is Failing
Leslie Gelb has plainly had it with Obama. He observes: “The negative, even dismissive, talk about the Obama White House has reached a critical point. The president must change key personnel now....
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Errand Girl for Disastrous Foreign Policy
Michael Hirsh writes a lengthy piece on Hillary Clinton, confirming that she’s not much of a secretary of state. But then we knew that from the results of her handiwork — an unratifiable START treaty,...
View ArticleMore Obama!
The Washington Post tries to throw Obama and the Democrats a lifeline. It’s understandable that the liberal media — which witnessed a complete repudiation of Obama and his agenda at the polls — would...
View ArticleDoug Schoen Predicts
Here‘s Democratic strategist Doug Schoen: Not only has President Obama systematically put forward unpopular policies and programs that are not producing real, long-lasting results that reflect the...
View ArticleThe Cocooned President
The Washington Post tells us that Obama is to be “deprived” within the next six months or so of the services of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod (who will go run Obama’s reelection campaign, a task...
View ArticleFalse Hope
It happens about a month out before a wave election. The party about to be washed out sees a glimmer of hope — or thinks it does. The base gets a bit more engaged, but it really doesn’t amount to much....
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