There are three good reasons why increasing troop strength in Iraq is counterproductive for U.S. interest, to say nothing of anyone else's. The first is the current nature of the U.S. military. After the end of the Cold War, structural changes took place to make the U.S. military more flexible for smaller threats in more …
Capax Imperii, Nisi Imperasset: The Epitaph of the Boomers
At last we start a new year. The American voters spoke that they wanted something different; what they got was a Democratically controlled Congress. The left would like for you to believe that this is the greatest thing to happen to this country since Engle vs. Vitale. The rest of us look for analogies in …
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Pardoning Richard Nixon was the Right Thing To Do
The death of Gerald Ford has revived one of the great guessing games of the 1970's: was it right to pardon Richard Nixon after all he had done? We think it was. To drag out Nixon's trial in the liberal-controlled media of the time would have furthered the left's agenda by running down people's respect …
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A Country Needs to be Defended by its Own
Although we are unenthusiastic about bringing back the draft, we aren't any more enthusiastic about our military actively recuriting foreigners to defend our country. This is not based on some vague, moralistic patriotic urge. It is based on a knowledge of late Roman history, and specifically the disaster that the British leader Vortigern induced when …
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Ann Coulter’s Voting Problems Continue
Back before the election, we noted a piece in the Shiny Sheet about Ann Coulter's problems with voting in Palm Beach. At the time, we felt that this was a prosecutorial fishing expedition, politically motivated. Things keep moving somewhere with this. Now the Town of Palm Beach has thrown the investigation back to the Palm …
Is This Redneck or What?
It's bad enough that Jimmy Carter has uncritically accepted the idea that Israel is solely responsible for all of the Middle East's problems. But the fact that he won't even debate Alan Dershowitz--a card-carrying liberal if there ever was one--only shows that his hopeless pseudosophistication has gone beyond human repair. Carter has forgotten that Jews …
Me and My Big Mouth
We're sure that this is what Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky is saying to himself after the fiasco (which SEA-TAC is finally reversing) in which the Rabbi threatened to sue the airport for not including a menorah with the Christmas trees at the airport. The airport, of course, responded by ordering the removal of the trees, which …
The Problem with Americans Negotiating
The Iraq Study Group report highlights something that deserves better treatment than it receives in our political/media system: the problem with Americans negotiating for anything. Basically, Americans look at negotiating with Iran, Syria or anyone else the same way they do business deals: the negotiators go in, they apply whatever skills they have at "doing …
James Baker: Steady Cash Flow is King
As you might expect, we're not surprised that James Baker's committee has supported the "right of return" and a Middle East peace conference without Israel. Baker's thinking is exactly the same as the reason Russia got into bed with Iran: cash flow. The oil industry's main source of raw material is the Persian Gulf, and …
They’d Still Rather Take Riyadh. And Riyadh Knows It.
Last year we stated that Iran's greater objective than wiping Israel off of the map was to take control of both sides of the Persian Gulf, which would include Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the other Gulf states. Such an assesment was and is a minority view, both by those who support Israel (the …
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