 |
 |
|
|
|
||
As I mentioned yesterday, the only political tide that seems to be rising is the public’s increasing support for military action against Iran. Via Scoblete comes this new Rasmussen poll confirming that assessment: Seventy percent (70%) of voters believe it is more important to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons than it is to prevent [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
The big political news today has been Rep. Parker Griffith’s party-switching: Mr. Griffith, a lifelong Democrat whose victory in his Huntsville-area district last year helped the party hold a seat in an increasingly conservative district, said he was surprised by the party’s legislative focus this year on health-care and climate-change legislation. And he was miffed [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
If a Republican member of Congress so much as whispers criticism of Obama’s Afghanistan policy, or even comes right out and says we ought to withdraw and start tending to our own problems, Larison is right in there assuring us that he (or she) doesn’t mean it, can’t mean it, and is merely “pretending” to [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
A couple weeks ago, I discussed the Pew survey that found a high level of “isolationist” sentiment, and I recapitulated my arguments in the interview I had with The Economist. As I have said several times before, the headline result is very misleading. The more one looks at the survey results, the less meaningful the [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
Justin Raimondo detects yet another death of neoconservatism and yet another resurgence of non-interventionism on the right. As usual, he takes isolated examples, misinterprets them and then grossly exaggerates their importance. It is great news that many Tea Party protesters support something like a non-interventionist foreign policy. As many of them were originally Ron Paul [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
There have been quite a few interesting posts and columns about Avatar in the last few days, so I thought I would revive my bad habit of discussing film commentaries without having seen the movie in question. What most caught my attention in the responses to the film was Ross’ discussion of the role of [...]
Jay Cost argues that another “Jacksonian moment” may be upon us: We might be on the verge of another Jacksonian moment: a time when the people awake from their slumber, angrily exercise their sovereign authority, and mercilessly fire the leaders who have for too long catered to the elites rather than average people. The first [...]
Leon Hadar has a good column applying some of the lessons of the financial crisis to an analysis of flaws in U.S. foreign policy: Indeed, while Americans have been considering the moral hazard of their government bailing-out the American International Group (AIG) and other irresponsible risk-takers in Wall Street, they could also have pondered the [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
Most of this recent column by Victor Davis Hanson didn’t interest me very much, but there was one line that was so strained and desperate that it caught my attention. Hanson: Then there is Iran, which, many argued, was supposed to be have been empowered after we removed its nemesis Saddam Hussein. And, indeed, it [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
Responding to Friedman’s latest, Scoblete reminds us of something important: Your run of the mill moderate may be disgusted by al Qaeda attacks against America and may find the idea of slaughtering infidels abhorrent, but he may also think that we’re getting what’s coming to us and so isn’t very motivated to get himself killed [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, politics