With Hillary Clinton's lead growing, Barack Obama appears to be overreaching to keep the spotlight and highlight their differences. His suggestion that sex education begin in kindergarten seems a great leap forward even for a liberal Democrat. While Barack...
America’s Last Successful Mideast War
Americans who know any history – there may be a couple of dozen left – are all familiar with America's first Mideast war, that against Tripoli under President Jefferson. Far less well known is our war with Algiers in 1815. A nicely-written new book, The End...
Media Blitz for War: The Big Guns of August
This week the U.S. media establishment is mainlining another fix for the Iraq war: It isn't so bad after all, American military power could turn wrong into right, chronic misleaders now serve as truth-tellers. The hit is that the war must go on. When the White House...
Threatening the All-Volunteer Force
A collective madness has captured Washington, D.C. Actually, that's not news. Washington often has been captured by collective madness. One of the latest and strangest episodes is the belief that America must increase the size of its armed forces. All of the leading...
Thursday: 3 GIs, 116 Iraqis Killed; 76 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:25 p.m. EDT, August 2, 2007At least 116 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 76 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The Iraqi government said that civilian deaths increased dramatically in July. Also, three GIs were killed in separate events. A 13th...
Obama Would Focus Terror Fight on Afghanistan
Sen. Barack Obama, a leading candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday he would make Afghanistan the focus of U.S. anti-terror efforts and unilaterally strike terrorist targets across the border in Pakistan if the government of...
The Case for an America-First Foreign Policy
Ralph Raico gave this speech about an "America First" foreign policy to the Future of Freedom Foundation's "Restoring the Republic" Conference in Reston, Virginia, this past June. It appears below in seven parts.
The Benchmarks That Matter
Under the headline, "A War We Just Might Win," the New York Times on Monday published an op-ed by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution and Kenneth Pollack, both referred to as critics of the way the Bush administration has "handled" the war in Iraq. (Pollack...
Wednesday: 6 GIs, 1 Briton, 178 Iraqis Killed; 188 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:17 a.m. EDT, Aug. 2, 2007Violence returned at full throttle to Baghdad as several large bombings killed dozens of people on a day that the Sunni bloc quit the Iraqi government. Overall, 178 Iraqis were killed and 188 were wounded during the latest round...
US-India Nuke Deal May Spark Asian Arms Race
UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. decision last week to proceed with a controversial civilian nuclear deal with India has triggered strong negative responses from peace activists, disarmament experts, and anti-nuclear groups. "The development of a nuclear/strategic...