Does angry conservative America really want the playing field of romance to be so uneven? We might have to go old school and remind them that love means never having to say you’re sorry, no matter who you are. Read more: Valentine's Day, Love in America, Conservatives, Falling in Love, Los Angeles, Love, Military Families, [...]

‘You are not sick’ is the kind of reassuring message that Robert Kagan is sending to the nation’s foreign policy hypochondriacs aka ‘declinists’ in his new book, contending that America is in tip-top military and economic health and ready to take care of the rest of the world. Read more: Syria, Iran, George W. Bush, [...]

Despite the Obama administration’s best efforts, U.S. troops are on their way home from Iraq. Only Iraqi opposition prevented American forces from garrisoning yet another nation forever. It is time to leave. Finally. Completely. Permanently. Read more: Neoconservatives, Iran, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, George W. Bush, Iraq, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, World News Iraq [...]

It’s time for Obama’s neoconservative critics to acknowledge his leadership success on foreign policy, especially on Libya. Why? Because Obama has done what his most ardent foreign policy critics have failed to do: he has ushered in a new era in the Arab world. Read more: Libya, Leadership, Military, Arab Spring, National Security, Muammar El-Qaddafi, [...]

Unlike the public sector, the private sector is bred for efficiency. Left to its own devices, it will always find the means to provide services faster, cheaper, and more effectively than will governments. – James Jay Carafano, Private Sector, Public Wars I suspect the vast majority of Americans would agree with Mr. Carafano. They probably [...]

During the 2008 presidential election campaign, the GOP hit plan on then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was simple. Pound him relentlessly as soft on the war on terrorism and the military. GOP presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and especially George W. Bush in 2004 in his reelection fight with Democratic presidential foe Massachusetts Senator John [...]

Originally published in Metro. When David Miliband was Britain’s Foreign Minister, his country was on friendly terms with Muammar Gaddafi. In 2009 Scotland released from prison on humanitarian grounds a Libyan agent who was convicted of killing 270 people in the Pan Am Flight 103 crash in December 1988. London said it wasn’t involved in [...]

There has been a lot of fuss in the past several weeks about the lack of a coherent “Obama doctrine” in foreign policy. Critics and commentators have been dissecting his past speeches and pronouncements, searching for a coherent “doctrine” to support his foreign policy approach to events in Libya and elsewhere. Conservatives and liberals alike [...]

Mississippi Governor and potential presidential aspirant Haley Barbour (R) made news Tuesday when he publicly expressed skepticism over the United States’ continuing military intervention in Afghanistan. In a speech at a Scott County GOP event in Iowa, Barbour wondered aloud, “What is our mission? How many al Qaeda are in Afghanistan? … Is that a [...]

In the last few days, demonstrations have spread beyond Egypt and Yemen not only to Bahrain but into Iraq–most notably in the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan. Dozens were wounded and several died after police shot at a crowd of protesters in the city of Sulaimaniya. The demonstrators were chanting slogans against high unemployment and [...]