The Iraq War isn’t over yet. The debate over how and when it will end mostly is. A few years ago, while discussing the failure of the U.S. Armed Forces to have enough up-armored humvees, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld uttered an infamous quote about...
Below is the full text of the Barack Obama’s major policy speech on foreign relations. July 15, 2008 Washington D.C. As Prepared for Delivery Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins....
This is pretty interesting. Michael Yon, the author of Moment of Truth in Iraq, who has probably spent as much or more time in Iraq over the past five years than any journalist is calling the end of the Iraq War. The war continues to abate in Iraq. Violence is still...
By Barack Obama: The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated,...
A short snippet of an Obama speech the other night. Here’s more of the expanded text of the speech. You know, I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, “We need to have English- only.” They want to pass a law, “We...
I’ve contemplated Barack Obama’s plan to reform Social Security for long enough. I have only one question: why am I going to be disadvantaged just because I’m young? Obama’s plan to address the coming Social Security funding gap does not call...
