I am sorry to see him gone. He wrote with insight and clarity. RIP ========== Fouad Ajami would have been amused, but not surprised, to read his own obituary in the New York Times. “Edward Said, the Palestinian cultural critic who died in 2003, accused [Ajami] of having ‘unmistakably racist prescriptions,'” quoted obituarist Douglas Martin. Thus was Said, the most mendacious, self-infatuated and... Read more
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Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamHe fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
Patent Office Comanches
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtI don’t think the name should be changed, but I grant some logic for the dislike. ========= Updated June 18, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET From J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to Lois Lerner’s IRS, we thought we’d seen everything in the politicization-of-government file. But now even the lowly patent clerks are following liberal orders and deputizing themselves as George Custers to drive the Washington... Read more
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaRarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. ======= Updated June 17, 2014 7:34 p.m. ET As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama’s past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. “If... Read more
Doesn’t Hillary Clinton Know the Law?
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, TerrorismMrs. Clinton and President Obama must have had the same US Law professor. ========== Victoria Toensing – June 17, 2014 7:22 p.m. ET In her interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer last week, Hillary Clinton said “I was not making security decisions” about Benghazi, claiming “it would be a mistake” for “a secretary of state” to “go through all 270 posts” and “decide what should... Read more
The Pace of Obama’s Disasters
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaBergdahl one week. Then Ukraine. Now Iraq. What could be next? What do you see when you step back for a wider perspective? ========= Bret Stephens- Updated June 16, 2014 7:41 p.m. ET Was it only 10 months ago that President Obama capitulated on Syria? And eight months ago that we learned he had no idea the U.S. eavesdropped on Angela Merkel ? And seven... Read more
