Obama’s Rhetoric Then and Now
Five years ago, Barack Obama spoke to 200,000 people in Berlin, presenting himself as a “citizen of the world,” noting he didn’t “look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken” there, with a speech...
View ArticleA Victory for Anti-Semites in Berlin
The controversy over efforts by some Germans to ban circumcision has gone from bad to worse in the months since a Cologne court deemed the procedure illegal. Prosecutors have charged two rabbis for...
View ArticleObama’s Moment to Redefine the Modern Middle East
Somehow it’s hard to get too worked up about the formalized rituals of the State of the Union when real news is happening half a world away. In the Middle East, revolutions, for good and for ill, are...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier misread the judicial system in Haiti. Just days after he mysteriously returned to the country after a 25-year exile, the former Haitian dictator was...
View ArticleThe Berlin-Rome-Tehran Axis
One of those dirty secrets that broad swaths of European media and politicians avoid like the plague is the ways in which European countries are propping up Tehran’s regime and its proxies Hamas and...
View ArticleHonduras, Obama, and Occam’s Razor
In the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Mary Anastasia O’Grady wrote that cables released by WikiLeaks show that the administration knew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had threatened Honduran democracy...
View ArticleWhy Hitler’s Palestinian Ally Still Matters
WikiLeaks isn’t the only source of interesting government documents. On Friday, the National Archives published a report about American efforts to recruit former Nazis to help intelligence efforts...
View ArticleYou Want to See Islamophobia?
Perhaps American journalists eager to apologize to the world for America’s Islamophobia should take note of the following. According to the AP, “An Islamic centre has been firebombed in Berlin — one of...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Precedent Points to the Proper U.S. Response: Get Over It!
Leave it to master historian and COMMENTARY contributor Andrew Roberts to come up with a historical precedent for the latest WikiLeaks fiasco. In today’s Daily Beast, Roberts writes that Julian...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Nihilism in the Guise of Transparency
Yesterday I wrote about the WikiLeaks document dump in terms of what we learned about Arab leaders and their views toward Iran. Today I want to focus on its damage to American national security, and to...
View ArticleRE: Russian Impunity, Obama’s Indifference
Eli Lake has more on the attack on Boris Nemtsov: Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, said in an interview that those who assaulted him were linked to a pro-Putin youth group known as the...
View ArticleFed’s Plan to Rev Up Printing Press Gets Thumbs Down
As I noted last week, the Fed’s decision to print up $600B in order to purchase bonds is not without its risks — or its critics. One of those, Kevin Warsh, a Fed governor, takes to the pages of the...
View ArticleThe German Example
Chris Caldwell provides one of the most important pieces of economic analysis since the financial meltdown more than two years ago. The focus is on Germany, but it tells us much about Obama and his...
View ArticleWho Decides What’s ‘Beyond the Pale’ of the Republican Party?
In a speech to the Hudson Institute last week, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, in accepting the Herman Kahn Award, spoke admiringly of Kahn. Daniels quoted from Kahn’s 1982 book, The Coming Boom (it...
View ArticleForgetful Architecture
It is hard to design a memorial, let alone a Holocaust museum. There are a handful of firms equipped to handle the demands of the institution, the local community, the municipality, and those who are...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Aim Is to Make Israel a Pariah’
Last night, Rupert Murdoch gave an extraordinary speech at an Anti-Defamation League dinner in which he revealed, yet again, that he is a true and selfless friend of the Jewish people and of Israel....
View ArticleThe Half-Hearted Commander in Chief
Charles Krauthammer sums up conservatives’ horrified reaction to Bob Woodward’s book: What kind of commander in chief sends tens of thousands of troops to war announcing in advance a fixed date for...
View ArticleMoment of Opportunity?
One of the many disagreeable aspects of the “peace process” is that people say very silly things. A case in point: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Snapshots from the Morning Papers
This morning’s newspapers bring a slew of important and interesting articles about Afghanistan. –The Wall Street Journal reports on the ongoing probe of the New Ansari Exchange, a leading “hawala”...
View ArticleObama Isn’t Very Persuasive, Is He?
Conservatives rolled their eyes during the 2008 campaign when Obama spoke about stopping the rise of the oceans, went to Berlin to declare that this is “our moment,” and told swooning fans that they...
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