Thursday, September 25, 2014

Grand Illusion in Syria

there might be a lesson here about how hard it is to conjure up reliable allies amid the chaos of the current Middle East. But if so, we seem determined not to learn it,

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/grand-illusion-in-syria.html?_r=1

Female genital mutilation

there is truly a war on women going on that these same radical Democrats and defenders of “women’s rights” say nothing about.  We do not read even muted comments about this other war: namely, the application of female genital mutilation

No victory without extirpating terror sponsors.

A basic rule of war is not to permit one’s enemy safe harbor in which to retreat, regroup, resupply, and plan new attacks. That was our main handicap in the Vietnam War

The Progressives: Modern and Post Modern

Woodrow Wilson, the very model of the modern Progressive, utterly rejected the Founders’ self-evident truths and unalienable rights.  Wilson and the modern Progressives saw the Declaration and the Constitution as anachronisms that America needed to progress beyond. 

Defeating ISIS; Helping Iran

President Obama must be careful not to “degrade and destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria to the point of helping Iran and its axis of evil step into the vacuum that would be created and establish its own Islamic Shiite caliphate spreading from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq to Iran itself. 

What happened to global warming?

If the Earth hasn’t warmed for the last 18 years because the predicted heat is going into the oceans, then why is there 43% more ice in the last two years?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/the_oceans_ate_global_warming.html

Obamacare

Talk to the average physician about trying to care for patients in the United States today, and you’ll hear exactly the same sorts of sentiments as those expressed by American soldiers faced with the task of “winning the war” in Vietnam some fifty years ago.