If you’ve been a longtime, stalwart ally of the United States, you’d better run for your life. Since Barack Obama has been president, he has managed to diss each one of our allies, in varying degrees of seriousness from merely
If developments in Egypt have gone as well as one could hope for, future prospects remain unclear. The exciting part is over, now come the worries. Let’s start with three pieces of good news: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s strongman who appeared
While everyone’s eyes are on Egypt and its possible Islamization, something even more significant is going on under the wire in Turkey. The government of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took a major step towards consolidating its regime by conducting
My participation in “Carbon Nation” came about quite fortuitously. After I retired from the Army, I was working as a government analyst, looking at the tactical implications of energy security. I was leaving that position to try to encourage commercial
I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can
The way our system of governance is set up, the President is given lots of discretion in foreign policy. Which in Obama’s case means a license to mess up. Compounding matters, Obama’s Republican opposition is focused on repairing the damage
Yesterday I called my friend Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, President Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. She was busy leading a contingent of folks speaking with Saint Peter about reducing the media budget of the socialist parties that run a blog
What is going to happen next in Egypt? According to Mubarak, “the result will be extremism and radical Islam.” Others aren’t so sure. What is certain is that the risk factor in the Middle East has risen again. That means
There must be something extremely frustrating about being a public opinion pollster: they constantly have a grasp on the pulse of the American people, yet they are typically uninvolved in actual activism. One would think that informing Americans where others
Egypt is in chaos today, after Egyptian officials first signaled president Hosni Mubarak’s intention to “meet all the protesters’ demands” (i.e., step down), but then did not step down. In his speech, he said he’d stay on until the September
The day after Andrea Mitchell is warned about the extremism of the Muslim Brotherhood by an ex-Muslim Brotherhood member, she goes on at length about how not extremist it is. Er … ? [youtube 0ETzOClvQZc nolink] “I do not believe
Governments throughout the world – Egypt, Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and on and on – block or dramatically control their peoples’ access to the Internet. We in America have enjoyed a government-free Web. Which has led to
The lengths to which the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol is willing to go in criticizing Glenn Beck’s assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate clearly demonstrates how out of phase with reality the former’s paradigm is.
It is now becoming apparent that President Obama is heavily involved in regime change in Egypt. Despite earlier claims that the US was neutral, there is growing evidence that Obama has been working since the earliest stages to oust Hosni
As the threats against Israel mount from all directions, the job of the IDF Chief of General Staff is becoming more challenging by the day. First on the list of threats is Iran. While it is apparently true that the
Every beginning has an end. As I witness the millions protesting in Egypt over the last 2 weeks this saying keeps resonating in my head. Where does this revolution leads Egypt and what will be the domino effect on its
Falk’s imaginary Ayatollah, circa February, 1979: Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on non-violent tactics. Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country. If this
Most Americans agree that democracy is a desirable system of government for most people in the world. The route to reach it, however, is anything but simple. With current events in Arabia, the Obama administration once again finds itself out
Ronald Reagan was my first and best vote, no doubt about it. But into the mounting paeons timed to mark his centennial today, I have to toss some clay if only to slow apotheosis, beatification or whatever celebratory conservatives starved
Ronald Reagan’s three most important pillars of national security policy were (1) peace through strength; (2) trust but verify; and (3) beware of evil in the modern world. We followed that wisdom. And communism collapsed. The Soviet empire crumbled. Tyrants
Once again, the World is witness to the revolutionary aspirations of a people long suppressed. Today it is Egypt. Yesterday it was Tunisia and decades before that Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Iran. The Russians endured their own revolution in the
The Mainstream Media (MSM) has circled the wagons around the Obama Administration Officials as the Middle East descents into chaos. Some members of the MSM are expressing concern on how the populist uprisings in the Middle East will directly and
In his day he was reviled in ways that George W. Bush could commiserate about. He was denigrated as just an actor, a lightweight, an extremist and many other insults. And yet now he is revered by most including many
Moorish soldier With a Spanish heritage, Hispanics should have a better understanding of events in Tunisia and Egypt. The Moros (English – Moors) conquered Spain for eight centuries. We had the Reconquista in 1492 as we all know. Except today
There was bloodshed in Egypt again on Thursday, as pro- and anti-Mubarak fought each other in Cairo and Alexandria. Still, the streets were quieter on Thursday than they had been for the preceding couple of days. Cairo (AP) A may
