TagsTagsWhere does GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney stand on foreign policy? That's a question that even his advisers are asking. He went and said that we shouldn't negotiate with the Taliban and that we should defeat the Taliban, even as many of his advisers and supporters are looking at a ...
Mitt Romney, Foreign Policy, 2012 Elections, Diplomacy, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, China, Russia, USA
Image via Shutterstock This could be huge: N.Korea Agrees to Nuclear Moratorium, IAEA Inspections. WASHINGTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Wednesday to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches, and to allow checks by nuclear inspectors, in an apparent policy shift that paves the way for ...
North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, President Obama, Foreign Policy, Breakthrough
Here's yet another almost painful video clip, showing Herman Cain at a press conference today in Florida attempting to field questions about his disconnected interview on Libya and foreign policy earlier this week. In this episode, Mr. Cain explains that Libya is now a country in which the Taliban are going ...
Herman Cain, Libya, Taliban, Afghanistan, Gaffetastic, Ignorance, Foreign Policy
Sometimes all you can say is, "Wow." Video
In today's Republican Party, ignorance is not cause for criticism; in fact, ignorance is celebrated and glorified, and the candidates who spout the most ignorant nonsense are rewarded. This ignorance is most noticeable in their attitudes toward scientific issues such as climate change and evolution, but it also extends to ...
Herman Cain, Uzbekistan, Ignorance, Religious Right, Foreign Policy
The strange uneasy tea party coalition of Ron Paul paleo-libertarians and religious right conservatives is crumbling, as their irreconcilable differences on foreign policy emerge. (CNN) – Sarah Palin and Ron Paul are two darlings of the Tea Party movement, but their views on military spending could hardly be more different. Palin, ...
Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Libertarian, Religious Right, Military Spending, Foreign Policy, Isolationism
The Forward has an interesting piece on a little noticed fact about the Obama administration’s support for Israel: U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing. WASHINGTON — Leaders in Washington and Jerusalem have publicly locked horns over the issue of West Bank settlements. And Israeli public opinion has largely viewed America’s new ...
It’s a good thing we’re not having any kind of recession or financial crisis or massive deficit or anything like that here in the US, so we can afford to send $200 million in aid to Palestinians. And that’s just the first installment — we’ve promised almost a billion smackeroos to ...
Palestinians, Foreign Aid, Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, PLO
Charles Krauthammer’s column today is about the Obama administration’s newfound fondness for the policies of the Bush administration: Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism. If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, War on Terror
Charles Krauthammer’s latest: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President. Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the ...
For today’s test of Barack Obama, Russia is hinting about putting strategic bombers in Cuba and Venezuela. MOSCOW – A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported. The chief of ...
Clinton administration ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, a top adviser to Barack Obama, is interviewed by Germany’s Spiegel Online: ‘We Americans Have a Wonderful but Frightening Innocence’. SPIEGEL: Is he a second Bill Clinton, who tried to mediate between the conflict parties in the Middle East — but ultimately failed? Indyk: ...
What an interesting admission from Joe Biden, who states pretty clearly that Barack Obama’s youth and lack of experience will lead to “an international crisis.” “Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Crisis
The magazine Foreign Policy has gotten very, very weird, and I don’t mean that in a good way. They’re currently running a light-hearted slice-of-life photo essay on a Hamas terror training camp: Foreign Policy: Photo Essay: Are You Tough Enough for Hamas Boot Camp? Think you have what it ...
Rand Simberg points out that Obama’s “Auschwitz” story is nothing new. He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read: My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, History, Veterans, Opportunism, Auschwitz
Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, and his willingness to lie at the drop of a hat? Obama Talks of Family’s Military Service. Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the ...
Opportunism, Veterans, History, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to Hamas-hugging Jimmy Carter during his disastrous presidency, is now a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. Brzezinski says that the Jewish Lobby is too powerful in the US, and uses the media to shut down criticism and influence the government. Antisemitism, anyone? Oh, I forgot, ...
Antisemitism, Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Anti-Israel, Israel, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF
On Friday Barack Obama spelled out his Latin America policy (it’s just like his Middle East policy—talk to everybody), and inadvertently supplied another example of his stunning ignorance of history and naive foreign policy ideas. The speech is transcribed at the official Obama campaign web site: Renewing U.S. Leadership in ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Latin America
Barack Obama’s ad hoc, make-it-up-as-we-go foreign policy is so pathetic that even the Associated Press is beginning to notice: Obama’s outreach to US foes is questionable.
LGF, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Election 2008, Foreign Policy
Forget about Barack Obama’s middle name; what matters are his views on foreign policy—and those views are a mixture of idiotarian progressivist cant and embarrassing self-contradiction: Another Obama Foreign Policy Gaffe, MSM Ignores It.
Rudy Giuliani’s pre-election foreign policy statement has been published at Foreign Affairs: Foreign Affairs - Toward a Realistic Peace - Rudolph Giuliani. Big LGF kudos to Rudy for being first out of the gate with a serious, reasoned examination of the important foreign policy issues facing the US. Here’s the refreshingly ...