Now Is Time for U.S. to Leave Afghanistan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 5th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Now Is Time for U.S. to Leave Afghanistan
Larry Kudlow, National Review
In the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, I found myself agreeing with Charles Krauthammer that this was a global game-changer for American greatness. It was a gutsy and courageous decision by President Obama, brilliantly executed by the Navy SEALs and all the intelligence and support behind them.As Krauthammer put it, after the tough slogs in Iraq and Afghanistan, this amounts to the restoration of unquestioned U.S. military dominance. America has not slipped, nor has our military reach and power.But now I want to ask a more difficult question. With the killing of Osama, is the…
The Democrats’ Double Standard
Study Captures Electorate Beyond ‘Red vs. Blue’
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
The metaphorical three-legged stool of the Republican base — national security advocates, economic and social conservatives — looks more like a unicycle today. In other words, conservatives are more uniformly conservative. Yet the wider GOP coalition continues to disagree on an array of issues, from whether it will require any tax hikes to resolve the deficit to how rapidly the U.S. should withdraw forces from Afghanistan. So reports the Pew Research Center in a seismic new study of the American electorate.Democratic blocs continue to fracture on issues ranging from the impact of…
Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!”
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Policy, Politics & Culture George Monbiot of the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian has a must-read column in which he admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed.Read the whole piece for a thoughtful and brutally clear expose of the intellectual bankruptcy of the green movement from one of the smartest people in it. This is what I’ve been getting at for more than a year here: regardless of what is happening to Planet Earth, the green movement does not have…
