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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 20, 2010 2 Comments
On Thursday evening the Cornell speaker series entitled “Freedom & Free Societies” hosted Richard Fontaine. Fontaine is probably best known for being John McCain’s foreign policy advisor for about five years, including 2008, but he also boasts a post at the Center for a New...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2010 10 Comments
Once again, Barack Obama is creating a phony crisis to rush a major legislative vote without having done the preliminary legwork to address Republican concerns. Think Stimulus and Obamacare.  This time, it arguably is the most important vote, the Senate ratification of the new START...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 11 Comments
The Stuxnet malware apparently was designed to damage or destroy industrial system controllers of the type used in Iran’s nuclear program. It is too early to assess what, if any, damage has taken place in Iran because of the secrecy of the Iranian regime.  Based...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 13 Comments
Sam Stein writes at HuffPo today that increasingly libertarian social attitudes in the Republican Party combined with the failure of Democrats to live up to campaign promises, has led Democratic Party insiders to worry that “the Obama administration risks losing the gay rights community (or at least...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2010 17 Comments
Remember Joe Biden’s comment that hostile forces would test Obama in his first six months? Well, whatever tests have come before, the big test is about to take place, as Russia, Iran and Turkey are uniting to break American influence in the greater Middle East...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments
There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 1 Comment
President Obama’s outreach to Russia constitutes a “strategic reset,” according to Spencer Ackerman. The proof? The recent Joint Statement issued by the U.S. and Russia commemorating the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River during WWII (emphasis mine): Now this is something...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2010 4 Comments
So reports The New York Times regarding a new conventional weapons system under development. In the recent arms control treaty signed with the Russians we agreed to count each of these new conventional weapons towards the nuclear weapons limits in the treaty, meaning that for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2010 16 Comments
The President of Poland and much of Poland’s military and civilian leadership were killed when the presidential plane crashed in Russia on the way to commemorate the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2010 12 Comments
In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis: In late...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 7 Comments
Keep moving, nothing to see here: Now Mr Obama is expected to rule out the development of new weapons systems — despite reservations from the military, which is mindful that Russia and China are modernising and expanding their nuclear forces respectively. He will also drop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
The United States has a hard time getting a sanctions resolution against Iran through the U.N. Security Council because Iran has two protectors (Russian and China) among the five permanent members with veto power. Israel has only one reliable veto-wielding friend on the Security Council,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2009 8 Comments
Joe Klein, sometimes hero, sometimes villain to just about everyone, wrote a lengthy article about all the problems Hillary Clinton is having in just about every part of the world with just about everyone over just about every foreign policy issue. But one sentence in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 11 Comments
Barack Obama is on another “it’s all Bush’s fault” tear again. This time, using the tired campaign theme of cleaning up Bush’s mess: Another way of putting it is when, you know, I’m busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2009 21 Comments
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Peace in Afghanistan? Peace in Iraq? Peace in the Middle East? Nope. How about peace in Chicago, Honduras, Detroit, or somewhere? Nope. What a joke. Was Chris Matthews on the committee? What an embarrassment to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2009 6 Comments
Barack Obama is fiddling on his grand plans to remake the U.S. health care and energy systems, while our economy and our position in the world burn. The most recent evidence of the harm being caused by our fiddler-in-chief is the move internationally to abandon...
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