by Monica Crowley. Obama foreign policy has long resembled the old Abbott and Costello “who’s on first” routine: a dazed and confused mush of leftist ideology and demonstrable weakness. The left hand hasn’t known what the far-left hand has been doing. Or the far-left hand has had to take the left one out to the woodshed for not being ... MORE
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Showing posts with label defense. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: Our Unwillingness To Defend Ourselves
Welcoming the barbarians. The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 2012 losses because of personal identity theft totaled $24.7 billion. The money losses from identity theft pale in comparison with the costs of paperwork, time and inconvenience imposed on the larger society in an effort to protect ourselves. ... MORE
John Stossel: Libertarians Versus Conservatives
Defense only versus policing the world. Both libertarians and conservatives want to keep America safe. We differ on how best to do that. Most libertarians believe our attempts to create or support democracy around the world have made us new enemies, and done harm as well as good. We want less military spending. Some ... MORE
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American Soldiers Did Not Die Defending Our Freedom
by Jacob Hornberger. An indoctrination proclamation. I was at the Washington Nationals baseball game last week. Whenever I attend a Nats game, there is an air of militarism surrounding the game, but attending on Memorial Day helps to remind us what a truly militarized society America has become. After all, what in the world does baseball, a quite ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The High Cost Of Liberalism - Part Two
Liberals can be disarming. In fact, they are for disarming anybody who can be disarmed, whether domestically or internationally. Unfortunately, the people who are the easiest to disarm are the ones
who are the most peaceful — and disarming them makes them vulnerable to
those who are the least peaceful. We are currently getting a ... MORE
The Best Defense Your Money Can’t Buy
by Jacob Sullum. Although the federal government accuses Kerri and Brian Kaley of trafficking in stolen medical devices, it has been unable to identify any victims of this alleged criminal scheme. That has not stopped the Justice Department from freezing the assets they need to defend themselves. The Supreme Court is now considering ... MORE
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The Corruptions Of Being The World's Policeman
Matt Welch on the folly of playing international sheriff. In making the case for a Syrian war to the Senate on September 3, Secretary of State John Kerry made so many bad arguments-including insisting repeatedly that the proposed bombing campaign would in fact not be a war, at least "in the classic sense"-that most viewers probably ... MORE
John Stossel: Road To Damascus
Defense should not mean offense. Some things you just have to do, in spite of great uncertainty. Launching missiles at Syria isn't one of them. Many pundits talk about going to war as if all we have to do is make up our minds about what "ought" to happen — who the bad guys are — and the rest is just details. If we decide we must punish a tyrant, ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: The Endless Quest For Credibility
Credibility is overrated. The United States boasts the most powerful military on Earth. We have 1.4 million active-duty personnel, thousands of tanks, ships and planes, and 5,000 nuclear warheads. We spend more on defense than the next 13 countries combined. Yet we are told we have to bomb Syria to preserve our credibility in world. Really? ... MORE
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Peter Suderman: 8 Reasons Not To Go To War In Syria
Is the U.S. on the march to war
in Syria? Over the past week, the stage has been set for yet
another military intervention in the Middle East. Calls for U.S.
action in Syria have grown louder following reports of a chemical
weapon attack in Damascus said to have been carried out with the
knowledge and approval of President Bassar al-Assad’s ... MORE
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Syria,
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What Did You Do During The War On Terror, Daddy?
by Nick Gillespie. This is what bipartisanship looks like—and it looks pretty damn fresh. On July 24th, a bill co-sponsored by Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI) and John Conyers (D-MI) that would have brought NSA domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens into rough compliance with the Constitution nearly passed the House of Representatives in a ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: 'Proportional Response'
Lowering the prospective cost of aggression. Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled in an example: If ... MORE
Matt Welch: When The Madness Began To Lift
The fruits of Rand Paul's historic filibuster. The 2004 Republican National Convention, held in New York City as close as possible to the three-year anniversary of the day the World Trade Center was pulverized by terrorists, was a three-day festival of chest-thumping snarls directed at anyone who’d dare mention the concepts of civil liberties or ... MORE
Rick Moran: Libertarians On The Rise At CPAC
What about the social conservatives? This account by the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan highlights the virtual libertarian takeover of CPAC this year and what it means for Rand Paul: When Rand Paul addresses those issues that divide libertarians and traditional conservatives-national security, the drug war, immigration, gay rights-he does so ... MORE
Matt Welch: Toward A Libertarian Foreign Policy
Rand Paul moves the ball on a long-overdue project. In October 2010, one month before a historic wave of Tea Party Republicans swept into power, Washington’s conservative establishment banded together to spread an urgent message to any would-be budget cutters on or near Capitol Hill: Hands off the military, kids. The $80 million ... MORE
Barry Farber: Females At The Flanks?
Men should do the fighting. This is a column opposing the use of women in combat, but let me tell you what kind of column this is not. It’s not going to slam you with the same old arguments about women being weaker, less able to carry a wounded man to safety, destroyers of “unit cohesion” and the “Band of Brothers.” And we know in Israel, ... MORE
Anna Mulrine: Will Women Have To Register For Draft? Yes
A great achievement for women's rights. That may be a difficult question from a societal standpoint, but the answer is straightforward, according to a legal analysis. On Thursday, the Pentagon will lift its ban on women in combat. Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted ... MORE
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