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Tom Friedman: Losing The Future

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Jay Reding

Tom Friedman phones it in again, in yet another New York Times column filled with the same old cliches we’ve heard a thousand times. This time, instead of kissing the asses of the Butchers of Beijing, Tom Friedman decides to give the GOP some unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Apparently, what the Republican Party needs to [...]

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Kim Jong-Il: The Death Of A Dictator

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jay Reding

Kim Jong-Il, the tyrant that ruled over North Korea has finally died at the age of 69. He likely died from a heart attack or stroke, although the North Korean propaganda machine has claimed that he died from “overwork.” Under his leadership, North Korea continued to be a concentration camp writ on a nightmare scale. [...]

Posted in International Relations, North Korea

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Obama’s Dangerous Deception In The Middle East

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Jay Reding

Martin Peretz has a powerful article in The New Republic on why Obama’s Middle East policies are in utter tatters. Peretz observes the rise of a new fundamentalism in Turkey, one of the most important countries in the region and once a strong U.S. ally. But thanks to President Erdogan, Turkey appears to be moving [...]

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Passing Blame To The Wrong Party

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Jay Reding

Daniel Larison, of the paleo-con American Conservative takes a look at the woes of the GOP and the conservative movement and puts the blame on national-security conservatives. It wasn’t that the Bush Administration went on an orgy of spending that made a mockery of conservative principles, or that social conservatives had a message that tended [...]

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Obama: The Surge Was A Failure, Let’s Do Another

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Jay Reding

Sen. (not President, despite the way he is carrying his campaign) Obama’s position on the surge still does not make a great deal of sense. As with everything Obama says or does, what really matters is not consistency, logic, or good policy, but cheap politics. First, Obama can’t deny that the surge has produced results. [...]

Posted in Campaign 2008, Idiotarianism, Politics, War On Terror

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Tough Words, Weak Logic

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Jay Reding

Barack Obama has written an op-ed in The New York Times previewing his strategy in the Global War on Terrorism. The first thing to be noted is how suspect the timing is. Later this summer, Sen. Obama is planning to finally return to Iraq and get a first-hand look at the country and meet with [...]

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Biden’s Servile Foreign Policy

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Jay Reding

Sen. Joe Biden (in an response to Sen. Lieberman’s must-read piece on Democrats and the war) writes on his critique of America’s post-9/11 foreign policy. His arguments are reasonable, but the problem is that the world he describes has little to do with the world in which we all actually live. For example: At the [...]

Posted in Idiotarianism, Iran, War On Terror

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