What Obama Needs to Say at West Point
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 2nd, 2009 5:33 am by HL
What Obama Needs to Say at West Point
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
You can't fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama's chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is.This won't be easy. Obama comes from the antiwar wing of the Democratic party that opposes the use of force in almost all instances. If he were still a senator and a Republican president were proposing a troop buildup in Afghanistan, Obama would probably be against it.Obama has spent most of his political career comfortably inside the cocoon of his party's left wing. …
Obama’s Window Dressing
Ralph Peters, New York Post
In the art-auction world, the trick to selling a bad painting is to put it in a terrific frame. That's the logic behind President Obama's West Point speech tonight.
The Copenhagen Conundrum
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn't with the science, it's with the solutions — specifically, the carbon emissions targets that enlightened world leaders are pledging to meet. That's where the numbers don't add up.