The fruits of weakness and appeasement are increasingly apparent. “Barack and Hassan concur, the US is waning,” by Michael Young for Now Lebanon, December 4 (thanks to Barry Rubin): It’s not often that Barack Obama and Hassan Nasrallah agree, but both made important speeches this week, and both appeared to…
The goals were narrow, and delivered without regard to America’s moral obligation to Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on Obama’s missed opportunity.The best that can be said about President Obama’s West Point speech is that it was civil. Obama did not accuse opponents of the Afghan surge of appeasement; he did not imply that he has a [...]
October 2, 2009
Obama’s French Lesson
By Charles Krauthammer
“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.” — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24
WASHINGTON — When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Just how low we’ve sunk was demonstrated by the [...]
