President Obama’s vow to destroy ISIS rings hollow and sets the course for another American misadventure. Along with allies in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, he refuses to grasp that security can’t be purchased on the cheap. The cancer
The British government appeared to overrule Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond this afternoon by stating that the UK may yet take part in air strikes against Islamic State in Syria. Hammond had earlier said that Britain would definitely not join the
Writing at the Weekly Standard, Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan assert that, during President Obama’s announcement of his plan to bring a counter-terrorism strategy to an insurgency fight, he said two things that are not true. Observing that ISIL is
Today on the thirteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the media cycle is being driven by President Obama’s speech last night in which he informed the world of his plans for Iraq and Syria. How different would our response as
Turkey will not support President Barack Obama’s call for a military response to ISIS, according to an official source quoted by Agence France-Presse on Thursday. It will not allow the U.S. to use air bases in Turkey for missions against
Sen. Angus King (I-ME), who caucuses with the Democratic Party, pointed out Wednesday that while the GOP has plenty to criticize in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, its own foreign policy is muddled. Worse, he noted, the Republican Party seems
President Obama gave his official “war speech” last night, speaking about his planned military action to stop Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria, but he never actually used the world “war” to describe his strategy. In fact, the only
Borders matter. That became crystal clear this past week, when Tesla picked a location just over the border in Nevada, instead of locating its new battery factory in its largest market, California. The regulatory and tax burden is significantly lower
President Obama addressed the American people this week, assuring them that he now had a plan to defeat the terror group ISIS. Remember that just the other day, Obama said that he didn’t have a plan to counter ISIS. The
Female British jihadis are running brothels full of Yazidi women who have been kidnapped by ISIS militants in Iraq. The women, who are senior members of the al-Khanssaa religious police force, have been tasked with looking after the girls who
In the moments following President Barack Obama’s address to the nation about his strategy in dealing with the ISIS threat in the Middle East on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Obama with a number caveats for
On a special broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” following President Barack Obama’s address of taking on ISIS in the Middle East, Washington Post columnist George Will questioned some of the unknowns in the Obama policy, which he said
On a special broadcast of FNC’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama for saying ISIS was Islamic during an address to the nation laying out his policy on the Middle Eastern rogue element. “There is
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) slammed President Obama for saying he had the authority to authorize military action against ISIS but welcomed “support” from Congress during his speech on ISIS on MSNBC on Wednesday. “I was insulted by it. He needs
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to President Barack Obama’s address that laid out his policy on combatting the threat of ISIS in the Middle East. According to Paul, it was important to
Looking back on Wednesday night’s presidential address to the nation, some analysts have wondered what, exactly, President Barack Obama intended to say. There was no real news in the speech, after all. The main point was to convey a four-part
Reports surfaced Wednesday night that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was “booed off the stage” at an event hosted by a purportedly Christian organization. Cruz, the keynote speaker at the new “In Defense Of Christians” organization’s dinner in Washington DC, had
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel following President Barack Obama’s address to the nation about his forthcoming ISIS policy, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) lambasted what the president had set forth in that address. Cruz called the
In a poll tonight on MSNBC, viewers of the Ed Show voted overwhelmingly against allowing Congress to have a vote on military action against ISIS. These would be the same people who squawked for five years about Bush’s “illegal”, and
Wednesday on CNN following President Barack Obama’s prime time address, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Obama administration press secretary Jay Carney got into a heated exchange over Obama’s responsibility in allowing ISIS to grow in Iraq and Syria over
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel strongly criticized President Obama’s address on ISIS during MSNBC’s special coverage of the speech on Wednesday night. Engel said that Obama’s invocation of Yemen and Somalia was “wildly off base, frankly. I think, it’s
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File” following President Barack Obama’s prime time address to the nation about his policy to deal with ISIS in the Middle East, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume reacted to the speech. According to Hume,
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy praised President Obama for announcing his decision to take the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists seriously, but they questioned his resolve to fight a war on terrorism. Boehner praised Obama
On Wednesday evening, President Obama gave his long-awaited speech spelling out his carefully planned strategy to deal with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The speech was brief by Obama standards – approximately fifteen minutes – and well-articulated. Sadly,
