http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=YWY2MzJhYzRhYzc4MzI4YjhmNzRhNjMwZjVhZjQ0NmM= Walking With Destiny ANDREW STUTTAFORD  Churchill, by Paul Johnson (Viking, 192 pp., $24.95) One of the most remarkable aspects of Winston Churchill’s sprawling epic of a life was the way that he was able to cram it all in — to do all that — in a mere 90 years. It is only […]
Shifty Shifting Our changeable attorney general doesn’t do law; he does politics ANDREW C. McCARTHY ‘This,†said Eric Holder, “is almost a ‘Trust me’ thing.†The attorney general of the United States was trying to reassure Alice Hoagland, whose 31-year-old son, Mark Bingham, lost his life with the other heroic passengers who wrested control of […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MGU3YTFlZGE1ZTNiOTQ1OTU2MTBhNTdlMjc0YzRhZWU= Resetting the Reset Button Obama wanted to set our diplomacy on a new track. And that’s just what he has done. By Victor Davis Hanson After ten months of “Bush did it†diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button. EUROPE On substantial issues, relations with Europe have not improved. The governments […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1157/What-If-We-Had-Fought-the-Nazis-the-Way-We-Are-Fighting-the-Taliban.aspx What If We Had Fought the Nazis the Way We Are Fighting the Taliban? Written by: Diana West In refining and repacking (for size) some of the “How Important Is Marjeh?” material for this week’s column, I came to a new definition of “counterinsurgency” (below). It’s worth emphasizing how very important our understanding of […]
Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor December 04, 2009, 4:00 a.m. Alinsky Does Afghanistan Obama’s radical inspiration would have loved his speech on the war. If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.†Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about […]
