Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Thomas Sowell: Glib, 'Happy Talk'
Presidential ignorance is not bliss. When Alfred E. Neuman said "What me worry?" on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice. In a musical comedy, it would be hilarious to have the president send out his "happy talk" message ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: America’s James Bond Complex
A license to kill? Today, American politicians of both major parties — conservatives, “moderates,” and so-called liberals alike — insist that the United States is an “exceptional,” even “indispensable” nation. In practice, this means that for the United States alone the rules are different. Particularly in international affairs, it — the ... MOREWords Matter In ‘ISIS’ War, So Use ‘Daesh’
by Zeba Khan. The militants who are killing civilians, raping and forcing captured women into sexual slavery, and beheading foreigners in Iraq and Syria are known by several names: the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS; the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL; and, more recently, the Islamic State, or IS. French officials recently declared that ... MOREThomas Sowell: 2014 - A Year Of Anniversaries
2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later. 2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of ... MOREEven Small Towns Are Loading Up On Grenade Launchers
Cities are gearing up for war. Custer is a nice little town in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Not quite the tourist center of the area—that’s really more up toward Keystone and Mount Rushmore—it still get its share of summer visitors’ traffic. Enough, anyway, to support just over 2,000 people, out of a county population somewhere around ... MORERand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS
by Doug Mills. Senator Rand Paul
is calling for a declaration of war against the Islamic State, a move
that promises to shake up the debate over the military campaign in Iraq
and Syria as President Obama prepares to ask Congress to grant him formal authority to use force. Mr.
Paul, a likely presidential candidate who has emerged as one of the ... MORERand Paul: Conservative Realist?
by Matt Welch. On Oct.
23, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) gave a
major address in front of the Center
for National Interest, a "realist" foreign policy think tank
founded by Richard Nixon. As he did in a similar
February 2013 speech in front of the conservative Heritage
Foundation, the libertarian-leaning presumptive 2016 GOP
presidential ... MORE
Horror Of Horrors! Jimmy Carter Identifies Obama As Wimp
by Alex Seitz-Wald. Another day, another defection from a high-profile Democrat on President Obama’s approach to combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). And the latest apostasy must be particularly painful for the White House considering its source, Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic president who supported Obama over Hillary ... MOREJohn Stossel: It's Better Now
Contrary to what you may see on television. Americans now face beheadings, gang warfare, Ebola, ISIS and a new war in Syria. It's natural to assume that the world has gotten more dangerous. But it hasn't. People believe that crime has gotten worse. But over the past two decades, murder and robbery in the U.S. are down by more than ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Musings of a genius. What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common. The biggest issue in this fall's election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal ... MOREWalter E Williams: Will The West Defend Itself?
The barbarians at the gate. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida's anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who Wants War?
Barack Obama's dangerous illusion. Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don't want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be proud of. ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: More Unlawful Presidential Killing
Something is amiss here. As the debate rages over whether the president needs congressional authorization for war prior to his deployment of the military to degrade or destroy ISIS, the terrorist organization that none of us had heard about until a few months ago, the nation has lost sight of the more fundamental issue of President ... MOREBarry Farber: When Strong Words Came With Strong Deeds
"Don't break your toothpick." Water power gets all the credit, but word power does the same kind of job. Water can unleash the forces of nature. Words can unleash the forces of human nature. Freedom-lovers from Minneapolis to Manila found energy and a stiffer backbone when, after the Japanese conquered the Philippine Islands, Gen. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Hold On, Mr. President
Not another prolonged engagement. "Do you have a strategy now, Mr. President?" asked the cover of the Daily News next to a photo of the second American journalist to be beheaded by the terrorist group ISIS. The impulse to "do something" to counter such evil is strong. But why do we assume that government doing something is always an ... MORESenator Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not An Isolationist’
The senator clarifies his position. Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily. They shouldn’t be. I’ve said since I began public life that I am not an isolationist, nor am I an interventionist. I look at the world, and consider war, realistically and constitutionally. I still see war as ... MORE
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