Tag Archives: President Barack Obama

The good Dr Emanuel suggests we throw in the towel at 75

NATIONAL REVIEW by Victor Davis Hanson September 24, 2014 Normally, no one would care that in a recent Atlantic essay — “Why I Hope to Die at 75” — 57-year-old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argued that living to be 75 years … Continue reading

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How are America’s actions any different than Israel’s ?

COMMENTARY by Jonathan Tobin September 23, 2014 The unleashing of the campaign of U.S. air strikes on terrorist targets throughout Syria last night may be the beginning of an offensive that will, as President Obama claimed this morning, “take the … Continue reading

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Winning Heads and Minds

STEYN ONLINE by Mark Steyn September 26, 2014 Moore is a municipality that lies between Norman, where a dear friend of mine lives, and Oklahoma City, which I know reasonably well. I can’t claim to know Moore other than to … Continue reading

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The Parallels Between Bush and Obama

THE AMERICAN INTEREST by Walter Russell Mead September 23, 2014 As President Obama begins to bomb Syria (with no UN authorization and with a coalition of the willing), he is still bombing Iraq, Yemen, and Pakistan; he has U.S. forces spread out across … Continue reading

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What Now for Israel? [IMPT]

MOSAIC MAGAZINE by Elliott Abrams September 2014 Common enemies and shared interests have aligned the Saudis, the Egyptians, and other Arabs with the Jewish state. That’s the good news. “The status quo is unsustainable,” President Obama said of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict … Continue reading

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Obama Taps Star General To Build Syrian Rebel Army to Fight ISIS

DAILY BEAST by Josh Rogin and Eli Lake September 21, 2014 General Michael Nagata is promising to build a new force to destroy ISIS but lawmakers worry he has been given an impossible mission. As lawmakers prepared to take a … Continue reading

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Saving Private Kerry

FRONT PAGE MAG by Daniel Greenfield September 19, 2014 Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to lay out an offensive strategy for defeating ISIS. Instead his real mission was a defensive strategy to protect Obama from … Continue reading

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Is Obama Wagging the Ebola Dog?

AMERICAN THINKER by Lauri Regan September 18, 2014 The anti-war president has finally found a way to wag the dog without upsetting his liberal base and war-weary electorate. Despite the beheading of two Americans, establishment of an Islamic caliphate, direct … Continue reading

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Obama’s Self-Defeating Fight

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick September 15, 2014 The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem. The problem with Islamic State is not that it … Continue reading

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A President Surrenders

AMERICAN INTEREST by Walter Russell Mead September 11, 2014 President Obama is now exactly where we at The American Interest were afraid he would be when the whole Syria mess started: from the beginning it was crystal clear that all his choices … Continue reading

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