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Petraeus Joins The Seditionists!

Published October 9, 2008 in Foreign Policy. 0 Comments

General Petraeus thinks we should talk to our enemies.
Sounds like this other guy I know…

Losing Afghanistan

Published October 9, 2008 in Afghanistan, Foreign Policy and Iraq. 1 Comment

Hey look, it’s the exact point Sen. Obama was making about how Bush and McCain’s push for war in Iraq ended up screwing up the true fight versus Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
The White House has launched an urgent review of Afghanistan policy, fast-tracked for completion in the next several weeks, amid growing concern that the [...]

They Really Are This Stupid

Published September 21, 2008 in Barack Obama, Conservatives, Foreign Policy and Instapundit. 40 Comments

Instapundit and other con blogs (failed Kos-wannabe Redstate, for instance) have once again posted this video from Sen. Obama where he discusses wanting a review of the military to cut missile systems that don’t work or are wasteful, not weaponize space and to stop the production of nuclear missiles. For a few months now they [...]

Either John McCain Doesn’t Know Where Spain Is Or He Wants Us To Be Enemies With NATO Ally Spain

Published September 18, 2008 in Foreign Policy and John McCain. 4 Comments

Either way, not someone we want anywhere near the button.

AP: Jose Luis Rodriguez Who?

Conservatives Suddenly Forget What The Bush Doctrine Is

Published September 12, 2008 in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, John McCain, Newsweek and Sarah Palin. 11 Comments

Perhaps they need John McCain to explain it to them, but this conservative whine in the wake of Sarah Palin’s flub during her interview with John Gibson that gave us what is now being called the “moose in the headlights” moment, is just ridiculous. Anyone paying attention to politics knows what the Bush doctrine of [...]

Sarah Palin Fails The Bush Doctrine Test

Published September 11, 2008 in Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, John McCain and Sarah Palin. 73 Comments

Perhaps if she had done a Google before the interview she would have known the answer.

Granted, the Bush doctrine is bunk, but as someone running for the vice presidency I would guess someone should know what the heck it is. “Hockey mom” with “executive experience” or no.
Joe Biden is the vice presidential candidate, who, [...]

In John McCain’s Defense, He Still Thinks The 21st Century Is The Future

Published August 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq, John McCain and Newsweek. 0 Comments

With a straight face he says that nations don’t invade other nations in the 21st century. As his good pal George W. Bush would say… you forgot Iraq.
Yet another element of the Grandpa Simpson doctrine is revealed.

Who Does John McCain Think He Is?

Published August 13, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy and John McCain. 19 Comments

It’s kind of funny that McCain has hit Obama for being presumptous, and yet it is McCain who put himself forward as if he were president and is now being called on it by the Georgian president
Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’’ Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning. ‘Well, very [...]

We Can Lead The World Again

Published July 24, 2008 in Barack Obama and Foreign Policy. 37 Comments

Sweet.
BERLIN, July 24 — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, addressing a huge crowd here Thursday, called on nations to “renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons” and unite to defeat terrorism while tearing down the “new walls” that divide people nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In a rousing speech [...]

They Are That Dumb

Published June 16, 2008 in Conservatives, Foreign Policy and Iran. 8 Comments

Fox News anchor and former UN ambassador John Bolton discuss how Iran could shoot missiles at the U.S. mainland. I’m serious.

GOP Tries To Energize Democratic Base

Published June 5, 2008 in Conservatives and Foreign Policy. 48 Comments

That’s the only explanation I can think of when I see that John Bolton is attacking Sen. Obama in an L.A. Times op-ed over his foreign policy positions. Bolton was an unmitigated disaster as UN ambassador, famous for expressing his desire that the U.N. building be destroyed. Bolton is the kind of nutjob who would [...]

Vast Majority Support Obama Doctrine, Reject Bush/McCain Doctrine

Published June 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy and John McCain. 36 Comments

Once again, the people stand with Barack.
Large majorities of Democrats and independents, and even half of Republicans, believe the president of the United States should meet with the leaders of countries that are considered enemies of the United States. Overall, 67% of Americans say this kind of diplomacy is a good idea.
Here is an [...]

North-Korea: We Can Haz Connection Now?

Published April 24, 2008 in Foreign Policy. 12 Comments

I don’t know why anybody believes the latest round of “North Korea is going to kill us on Tuesday” spin, but some do.

In Clinton’s Words, Bush Echoes

Published April 21, 2008 in Foreign Policy, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton. 31 Comments

I’m not saying that we would sit on our hands if Iran attacked Israel, but its amazing how easily Sen. Clinton accepts the premise that Iran is going to launch a nuclear attack on Israel. A few months ago she wouldn’t answer hypotheticals, now she’s launched nuclear war on Iran over a hypothetical.
Clinton further displayed [...]

Superman Foreign Policy

Published April 9, 2008 in Foreign Policy, History, Superman and USA. 4 Comments

photo credit: szlea
Ezra Klein makes the (convincing to me, at least) that American foreign policy should better be expressed as Superman versus Jack Bauer. Though to be honest the foreign policy we’ve got right now bears more resemblance to Lex Luthor.

Hillary Clinton’s “Experience”: Singing With Sheryl Crow In Bosnia

Published March 9, 2008 in 2008 Election, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's Experience, Newsweek and Politics. 6 Comments

Sen. Clinton continues to falsely claim that she has had serious experience on foreign policy matters, in order to contrast herself with Barack Obama. As part of that claim of 35 years of experience, she lumps in her years as First Lady of Arkansas and First Lady of the US. Neither position is even remotely [...]

Dept. Of Nobody Believes You

Published November 12, 2007 in Foreign Policy. 0 Comments

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