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// The United States is at a turning point in its foreign policy history. For the first time in many decades, the US faces the choice between domestic priorities and foreign entanglements. This fork in the road was bound to arrive sooner or later, but the disastrous and foolhardy adventures begun under George Bush II [...]
// These are the top 10 reasons why President Obama may win a second term in 2012, part one. 1. Incumbency As the incumbent, Barack Obama has a significant advantage that has documented over many election cycles. He enjoys built-in luxuries such as massive media and press coverage of anything he does or says, including [...]
// The primary reason the United States invaded Afghanistan in the first place was to fight Al Qaeda and its Islamist allies, particularly the Taliban. Ten years later, now that Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been dramatically weakened, America ostensibly has the luxury of considering significant troop reductions in the region. Needless to [...]
// How to bring down North Korea A skillful combination of military strength and diplomacy has the potential to quell tensions on the Korean peninsula once and for all. Any discussion of North Korea begins and ends with China, without whose support the rogue regime would not exist. China provides massive amounts of economic assistance [...]
Bret Stephens opined recently in the Wall Street Journal that the cause of Islamic terrorism is not so much Israeli settlements or the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine as it is… Lady Gaga. Specifically, Stephens points to Said Qutb, widely regarded as the intellectual father of modern Al Qaeda and other Islamist groups: In his [...]
