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I'm disinclined to celebrate bin Laden's or anyone else's death. But the broader context is that Republicans have been criticizing Democrats for being weak on foreign policy for two generations, even when such criticisms were unwarranted. If those suggesting that Obama's conduct has been "unusual" are correct, then perhaps the Republicans have a point. But, should we blame him for inoculating himself against such accusations with the latest campaign ad? Let's look at how President Bush and other GOP spokespersons have talked about the death of U.S. enemies.
I have many differences with Romney, as well as Obama -- but today, Romney gets a salute from me for hiring Richard Grenell.
Bolton can hardly be said to have learned the error of his ways. For instance, according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post, Bolton advised Tory delegates in Britain to press for a "pre-emptive strike" on Iran.
Uncritical support of Pentagon spending will make us weaker, not stronger. We need to get our fiscal house in order while still finding money to invest in the pillars of a strong economy.
It makes sense, and not just because it would save over $40 billion -- the Department's annual budget. That big building in Foggy Bottom near all the monuments can be turned into a Motel 6, making it a moneymaker rather than a revenue eater.
Shortly before the election of George W. Bush in 2000, then-NRA First Vice President Kayne Robinson boasted, "We'll have... a president where we work out of their office." Apparently, the NRA would do even better in a Newt Gingrich presidency.
Now may be the time for Obama, as well as leaders in Japan, South Korea, China and Russia, to offer trips to North Korea's political and military elite -- to show them what they could have if they engineered some shifts inside the regime.
It's February 13, 2013. It is 3 A.M. The phone rings in the President's bedroom -- it has an urgent sound.
At this point, there are only a few holdouts left on the sidelines, as most of the bigwigs (and some decidedly "smallwigs") have made their intentions known.
Because I'm trying to include simply everybody, this will necessarily have to be a very wide (and not very deep) look at all the possible candidates.
Between its strange state convention last weekend and the ongoing state budget impasse, California's party of no has seemingly taken center stage in the not so Golden State. But is that really so? And is it a good thing for Republicans if it is?
While the decision to refer the Libyan matter to ICC Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo was supported by many senior officials in the United States and abroad, former Bush administration Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton denounced it.
In cases in which an Islamist party was elected fairly to power, democracy was indeed dismantled, but not by the Islamists. It was dismantled by the paranoid reaction of America and its allies.
There are very real objections to the new START Treaty -- but you won't read about those concerns on the editorial page of the LA Times.
The New START treaty has the unanimous support of America's military leaders. But you wouldn't know it from the wails of the far-right, ignore-the-military pack led by Sarah Palin.
