Category: Foreign Affairs

There’s Room for Defense Cuts

Posted on by Brian Garst

Pending sequestration cuts are hanging in the air over DC, with politicians squirming under the prospect of actually putting a limit of any kind on spending. There’s a particular debate raging over the propriety of the spending cuts set to hit defense and what they’ll means for military readiness, with some Republicans — typically the […]

 

Pathetic: Obama Admin. Airs Ad In Pakistan Condeming “Innocence Of Muslims”

Posted on by William Teach

While Team Obama isn’t willing to air an ad here in the United States apologizing to all the Tea Party members whom he called “Teabaggers”, all the private citizens Team Obama has insulted, the women insulted by million dollar donor Bill Mahr, nor all the Mormons who’ve been denigrated by the Broadway show “The Book […]

 

Instead of Watching Embassies Burn Obama Watches Football Last Weekend

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are told that President Obama watched a lot of football this weekend. I guess it was more fun than attempting to deal with our embassies burning in the Middle East and our soldiers being killed in Afghanistan. The newsflash is courtesy of Amy Gardner’s twitter feed. Gardner, the White House reporter for the Washington […]

 

Joe Klein Desperate to Change Debate From Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As our embassies burn and our foreign officers are being murdered overseas, TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein is desperate to change the current narrative of Obama’s major failures in the Middle East. So, in his latest piece, Klein wants to go back to talking about Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts healthcare policies. Who can blame Klein for trying […]

 

An Untrustworthy White House

Posted on by Michael Fell

One person was killed and dozens more were injured when protesters attempted to storm a U.S. outpost in Pakistan.:  More flag covered coffins will arrive in the U.S. after four American soldiers died over the weekend as a result of ‘insider’ attacks in Afghanistan. : There are claims a video shows U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens […]

 

White House: Mid East Attacks Not Premeditated

Posted on by Michael Fell

The attack on America’s Benghazi consulate was not premeditated. It was all about the video. So said the White House, so said the State Department, so said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice: “Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began […]

 

Say, Why Is The Arab World So Easily Offended?

Posted on by William Teach

The Washington Post’s Fouad Ajami poses this question, and works to answer it, which is rather strange, considering that so many Liberals constantly tell us that it’s not the 1.3 billion plus Muslims who are bat guano violent, just a small minority. Ajami seems to be saying that all are like this, at least in […]

 

CNN Hides Facts: Cairo Riots Not About ‘Offensive’ American Movie, But Freedom of Blind Sheik The Goal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just before the crowd in Cairo, Egypt erupted in violence against the U.S. embassy there, CNN’s cameras were in the capital interviewing protesters who said that the main purpose for their protest was to have Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (known as the ‘Blind Sheik’) released from a U.S. prison. Yet as soon as the riots began, […]

 

HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Huffington Post contributor Sharmine Narwani took the occasion of the murder of our ambassador to Libya to launch into an anti-American diatribe that culminated in her asking why she is supposed to care about Ambassador Chris Stevens’ death or that of the other two killed with him. Sharmine Narwani, who is also a correspondent for […]

 

Four Americans Killed In Embassy Attack In Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Breaking news, it wasn’t just our ambassador to Libya who was killed yesterday (see previous post) (Fox News) The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American staff members were killed Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the White House confirmed. President Obama, in a written statement […]

 

The Obama Administration Apologizes To The People Attacking Our Embassy

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama has pursued his foreign policy with the habitual incompetence that he’s shown in the domestic arena, but he’s been a little luckier there. The military came to him and said, “We know where Osama is. Are we allowed to kill him?” He said “yes.” Iraq didn’t implode when we pulled out despite his […]

 

Brit Columnist: We Hated Bush But Obama’s Just as Bad

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Left-wing, British columnist Owen Jones was not a fan of George W. Bush, it seems. While this is no surprise for as screaming a left-winger as Jones, what is a surprise is that he has decided that President Obama is no real improvement over the “repulsive” Bush. In a recent column in The Independent, Jones […]

 

What’s the Future of the Middle East?

Posted on by Michael Fell

For those who support the institutionalized “progressive” left’s or Ron Paul’s positions on foreign policy, consider these perspectives expressed in an article posted August 24, 2012 on pravda.ru: “With the beginning of the Islamic awakening movement in the Middle East, the United States and its allies in the region, fearing the increasing waves of anti-American […]

 

Up is Down: Media Ignores Romney’s Successes in Overseas Trip

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was the most striking thing about Mitt Romney’s overseas trip this week? Says Powerline, the most striking thing is the “hypercritical” coverage given the trip by the American press. In what could only be seen by an unbiased person as a success, Romney’s trip has instead been reported as a gaffe-filled mess. Romney’s non-controversy […]

 

Obama Conference Call Ignoring Administration’s Syria Stagnation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s reelection team held a conference call recently. The call was meant as an attack on Mitt Romney’s trip abroad, a trip meant to burnish his foreign policy creds. But one thing that team Obama seemed to want to ignore was Obama’s own foreign policy failures in Syria. And so the civil war in […]

 

A New Attitude Yes, More Confidence? No

Posted on by Michael Fell

The current Oval Office occupant has claimed, and while speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno continued to claim that under his stewardship people have a new attitude towards and more confidence in America. “Four years ago, I stood before you at a time of great challenge for our nation. We were […]

 

Obama ‘Outsourcing’ Fundraising… to China!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While Obama tries to get America focused on the false claim that Romney outsourced jobs as the chief of Bain Capitol, what was the President doing? Why, outsourcing his fundraising, of course. Outsourcing it to Shanghai, China to be precise. On July 11, Obama’s big money men were holding a nice fundraiser in Red China […]

 

Putin Punks Obama

Posted on by Michael Fell

The most glaring example of diminishing United States power and influence around the globe is the dynamic taking place between the U.S. andRussia regarding Syria. Russia has dispatched a flotilla of eleven warships, almost half of which have the ability to carry hundreds of marines to the eastern Mediterranean.:  Some of those ships are to […]

 

Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy Won’t Include “Frenemies”

Posted on by William Teach

We’re starting to get a glimpse of how a President Romney would act on the international stage, which would be vastly different from (NMP) Obama’s (Washington Times) Call it the “friend-enemy” distinction. Mitt Romney has assembled a foreign-policy platform rooted in the belief that adversaries such as Russia must be confronted for backsliding on democracy […]

 

Sequestration, thermonuclear war, and the F-35 engine: an interview with SLD Forum’s Ed Timperlake

Posted on by Dustin Siggins

Ed Timperlake is the Former Principal Director of Mobilization Planning and Requirements for President Ronald Reagan and a former Marine fighter pilot. He is currently the editor of SLD Forum, a website dedicated to a robust discussion of national security issues. We sat down earlier this week to discuss a myriad of pressing national security […]

 

Fundraise and Fore! obama’s Answer to World Events

Posted on by Michael Fell

Israel issued warnings over security problems with Egypt. Militants from the Sinai Peninsula crossed over into southern Israel Monday and fired on a border security fence, killing one Israeli. The IDF moved tanks and otherarmed forces to the Israel-Egypt border in response to the attack. Egypt is on the offensive against Israel. Egypt’s presidential election […]

 

Global Governance vs. National Sovereignty

Posted on by Michael Fell

  The International Conference on Global Governance vs. National Sovereignty, sponsored by American Freedom Alliance, concluded Monday in Los Angeles CA. The chief question posed at the Conference’s opening: Is Global Governance vs. National Sovereignty the West’s next ideological war? John Bolton, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN gave Sunday morning’s Keynote Speech. Ambassador Bolton […]

 

Shocking Similarities Concealed

Posted on by Michael Fell

In a televised address to parliament, President Bashar Assad said foreign-backed terrorists and extremists were to blame for the massacres going on in Syria. Despite suspicions expressed by the UN that Assad’s forces are responsible for the Houla massacre, Assad denied it. Syrian opposition condemned his comments as lies. Assad described protestors as paid killers, […]

 

Poland Incensed Over Obama “Polish Death Camps” Remark, Still Waiting On Apology

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s the Smartest President Ever:® insulting yet another ally. Does the Democrat White House even bother to do any research? It’s really easy with this wonderful new invention call the Internet (ABC News) Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” – as opposed to a Nazi […]

 

Broken, Unfulfilled Promises and Wild Cards

Posted on by Michael Fell

Facing a divisive run-off vote for president of Egypt, Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, is trying for the center ground. He’s said he would include a wide range of political forces in government, promising to provide representation to women and children. “I stress to all people that the presidency… will never be individual,” he […]

 

A Blogger at NATO 2012, What I Saw on Day One

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was awarded press credentials for NATO’s 2012 Summit in Chicago and, having no idea what to expect, what I found on day one was a study in contrasts. What occurred was sometimes amusing, often mundane, and sometimes even violent. But it was all democracy in action. Early on the morning of day one, Sunday, […]

 

Obama To Hunt For Syria’s Chemical Weapons?

Posted on by William Teach

Will Liberals around the world freak out over this, as they did with Iraq? (Zee News) The United States is accelerating its plan with Middle Eastern allies to secure Syria’s vast stockpile of chemical weapons as that crisis in that country continues to worsen, according to a report. According to America and Middle Eastern officials, […]

 

More Evidence That I Was Right About Killing Julian Assange

Posted on by John Hawkins

George W. Bush never took leaks of sensitive classified material seriously and Obama is following in his footsteps, but the reality is that these leaks can lead to big body counts. When we alert the enemy to techniques we use to get information out of them, track them, or our sources — people can die […]

 

US Administration Renews Push to Ratify Law of Sea Treaty

Posted on by Michael Fell

The Obama administration has initiated a renewed push to convince the U.S. Senate to approve the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea treaty. Administration officials claim approval of the pact is necessary to protect the U.S. Navy’s right to carry out exercises off the coast of China. In the past Chinese ships have harassed […]