WASHINGTON — When it comes to reckless stupidity in Syria, Republican leaders in Congress sure are giving President Obama a run for his money. So they are in favor of launching war on Syria, but they do not feel strongly enough
Faux news man Stephen Colbert served up some faux facts this week. The liberal funnyman’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central tried to swat at the legend of President Ronald Reagan but used some fuzzy recollections to do so. Here’s
On Tuesday, in a primetime address to the nation on Syria, President Barack Obama implied that President George W. Bush sidelined Congress during his presidency from “critical decisions about when we use force.” However, Obama won his party’s nomination for
On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered a hastily-cobbled-together speech, first making the aggressive case for action against Syria based on Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons, then careening to the case against action in favor of more diplomacy, before concluding
President Obama: “In that time, America’s worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition, and to shape a political settlement, but I have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war
President Obama has not sold R&B singer John Legend on his plans for military intervention in Syria, as the Grammy-winning artist can’t find a justification for war that outweigh his concerns about helping either side in the country’s tragic civil
On Monday, National Security Advisor Susan Rice made the case that the United States needed to intervene in Syria to prevent chemical weapons from being used against Americans at home. Similar to the “mushroom cloud” argument then-National Security Adviser Condoleeza
By THOMAS PEIPERTAssociated PressDENVERAbout 100 students and faculty at the University of Denver and others protested against a decision by the university’s international school to give a global service award Monday to former President George W. Bush. Protesters demonstrated on
Anti-war celebrities spoke loud–and often–against the U.S. going to war with Iraq roughly a decade ago. That was then, and the Commander in Chief had an “R” next to his name. Today, with President Barack Obama trying to rally a
A new CNN poll finds that 71% of Americans oppose military action in Syria. Even if Congress were to authorize a strike, a clear majority, 55%, would still oppose military action in Syria. Although an overwhelming majority think it is
Politico, one of President Obama’s strongest allies in the mainstream media, tore into Republicans Monday for not supporting the president’s unilateral war against Syria. The left-wing outlet not only accused the GOP of turning “dovish,” but cherry-picked 2002 Iraq quotes
On September 8, Iran’s new Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said U.S. action against Syria “is illegal” and “outside the bounds of the United Nations charter.” Zarif was on his first official trip to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad when
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said he believed President Barack Obama would get congressional authorization to use military force in Syria on CBS’s Face The Nation Sunday. “I have every confidence we’ll be able to get this,” McDonough
The Syria crisis has provoked–or revealed–a new division on the left, between those activists and organizations willing to defend their principles despite the Obama administration’s reversals, and those on the “Obama left” determined to back the leader at all costs.
Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page is one of President Barack Obama’s more reliable defenders–or, more accurately, a reliable critic of Obama’s critics. Yet Page asks a key question in his column Sunday: “Would a younger Obama vote for his new
“Come out, come out wherever you are” is a common refrain we hear children yell when they play hide-and-seek. Today, many anti-war groups who had pestered, vilified and protested President’s Reagan’s and Bush’s national security objectives in the past are
Iraq has ordered Iranian exiles to move from a camp where 52 of their members were killed a week ago “without delay”, a government official and the UN said Saturday. Baghdad opened a probe into the events surrounding the deaths
If you are wondering where anti-war Hollywood has been as Obama proves he’s not Bush, but only by rushing into a Middle East war with no international coalition and United Nations backing, Ed Asner has the explanation: “A lot of
Many of us have been wondering what happened to all those bold, principled, sincere anti-war celebrities from the Bush years. They seem to have crawled under various rocks now that a Democrat President is eager to launch a war of
The old gang isn’t getting back together, apparently. Anti-war celebrities like Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Neil Young and Susan Sarandon railed against the Bush administration throughout the 2000s. They spoke out in every media venue possible, signed a
Iran has commanded militants in Iraq to attack the United States Embassy and other American targets in Baghdad if the U.S. proceeds with President Barack Obama’s proposed strike on Syria, a new intercepted order reveals. The new intelligence demonstrates Iran’s
Via NRO’s Andrew Johnson comes this clip of House Armed Service Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon telling Lawrence Kudlow the President is less than enthusiastic about having to defend his own Syria policy: The glimpse McKeon gives is of the
(AP) BEIRUT Syrian anti-regime activists say government troops and al-Qaida-linked rebels are fighting over a regime-held Christian village for a second day.The director of the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, says the fighters of al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra
In response to Mark My Words: Someone Is Going to Test This President : If you’ve been following our conversation about the Syrian conspiracy theories, you know I’m holding at roughly 70% confidence the Assad regime was responsible for the
There are a number of underlying questions regarding Syria. Most important: is it ever right to go to war if we, or our allies, are not directly attacked? Even after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor and Congress declared war
