I never expected to see this headline from MSNBC: Record numbers now licensed to pack heat: Firearm deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry guns Americans overall are far less likely to be killed with a firearm than they were when it was much more difficult to obtain a concealed-weapons permit, according to...
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You might’ve heard the section of the debate when McCain and Obama were arguing over what former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said at a forum here at GW. Obama thought that Kissinger’s position supported his conclusion, while McCain argued that Kissinger, one of his foreign policy advisors, proposed secretary of state level discussions with...
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The Wall Street Journal published an article today about Iran’s involvement in Iraq… basically, that they are the ones running the militias in Iraq. So I will once again trumpet my Iraq horn: we don’t just risk Iraq going to pot if we pull our troops out. We risk real threats to national security...
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After Adm. Willaim “Fox” Fallon, the commander of CentCom in Bahrain resigned last week, I feared that conservatives were going to turn on him, turning him into some man who wants us to fail in Iraq,and here it is. Michael Barone has penned a McCarthy-esque piece darkly hinting that many of our current diplomats...
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I’m not usually a big rah-rah proponent of military action against Iran (for the obvious reasons that the Army is a little busy right now and that certain other measures could induce a domestic regime change which would be that much easier for us)…that is until I hear the “president” of Iran speak. All...
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Following up on the (long dead) discussion from earlier in the summer on Islamic terrorism, I offer a somewhat dated interview from AmConMag with Professor Robert Pape (of the University of Chicago, that bastion of left liberalism) about his book Dying to Win: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Pape’s conclusion, after an analysis of...
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Duke professor Donald Horowitz wrote an article in today’s Wall Street Journal that very succinctly lays out the arguments against withdrawing from Iraq in the foreseeable future. As most of us have already conjectured, the results of withdrawal would include an Iraq-Turkey Kurdish war in the north, increased (and unpopular) Iranian influence in the...
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Iran is considered a “status quo” state, even after the recent kidnappings of British soldiers. The same article/editorial pointed out that kidnappings like this used to be causes for war (and often still are, as Israel’s ’06 war with Lebanon/Hezbollah demonstrated), and yet nobody even flinched, even...
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- Blair claims that the British soldiers being detained by the Iranians were “not in Iranian waters” when they were taken. FOX News is already claiming that the Iranians intend to use the sailors as “bargaining chips,” but that’s just FOX News talking. - A day late and a dollar short, the UN has...
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Anyone sick of hearing about how Bush is planning an invasion of Iran? Victor Davis Hanson is brilliant as usual in his latest column on the subject.
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