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The ‘Appeal to Conscience’ World Statesman of the Year ought to be treated with more respect, otherwise the award becomes…
Obama’s choice on Afghanistan
The New York Times reports that President Obama has re-opened internal debate about Afghan policy, suggesting that he is going…
The McChrystal plan
So, the report written by ISAF commander, Stanley McChrystal, to President Obama on NATO’s Afghan mission has been published. It…
Decision time for Obama
Bob Woodward has the scoop that General McChrystal’s review of Afghan strategy calls for more troops. McChrystal is direct, stating…
Petraeus’ lonely fight
At last night’s Policy Exchange lecture, General David Petraeus said he had known the former CDS, Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank,…
Mr Obama, tear down these missile sites
Today Barack Obama publicly tore down the missile installations that George W Bush put up in the Czech Republic and…
Bush didn’t understand Paulson’s bailout
Those who think that the financial bailout in the US was rushed through without sufficient thought and that the Treasury…
8 years on
Last night’s “tribute in light” for the victims of the World Trade Center attack on September 11th, 2001.
Obama and Cameron: who thought what about whom?
Remember that New Statesman article about Obama calling Cameron a “lightweight”? Well, the Journalist Closest to Obama, Richard Wolffe, has…
Reagan’s consummate circumlocution
This tale from Ted Kennedy’s autobiography, to be posthumously published later this month, is classic Reagan and an illustration of…
Following a strike, would Iran close the Straits of Hormuz?
In most discussions about what would happen following a strike on Iran it is taken as a given that the…
Libyagate: first denial, then silence now contradictions
The Times has obtained confidential correspondence suggesting that, in 1999, Robin Cook assured Madeleine Albright that those found guilty of…
Dan Hannan and Enoch Powell: make your own mind up
Here’s footage of Dan Hannan’s month-old US interview in which he cites Enoch Powell as an influence, and which has…
Senator Edward Kennedy, 1932 – 2009
Teddy Kennedy has died aged 77 after a battle with brain cancer. Kennedy was a towering member of the senate for nearly…
The language of political debate
A great spot by Tim Montgomerie over at ConservativeHome, who highlights this Wall Street Journal graphic on the words that…
The NHS isn’t free
If we are going to have a sensible debate about the NHS in this country, we need to deal with…
A new world order – don’t be silly
Go to any international think-tank conference and you will hear one complaint repeated ad nauseam: the intenational system, built after…
Aung Sang Suu Kyi, a victim of the post-American world
Today the Burmese junta convicted pro-democracy campaigner Aung Sang Suu Kyi to a further 18 months under house arrest after…
The trials of being in a power couple
It seems Hillary Clinton is smarting from her husband’s Korean coup. Exhibit A: her Q&A session with Congolese students yesterday,…
Another example of why the US needs more troops in Afghanistan
The Wall Street Journal’s write up of its interview with the new US commander in Afghanistan, General McChrystal, demonstrates why…
35 years ago today…
…Richard Nixon announced his resignation as President of the United States. Here’s complete footage of his televised address, one of…
Will the Obama administration deny requests for more troops in Afghanistan?
Frederick and Kimberly Kagan, two of the people involved in devising the surge strategy in Iraq which so transformed the…
The West must prepare contingency plans to bomb Iran
Chuck Wald, a retired US Air Force General who was the air commander for the US response to the 9/11…
Mehsud’s death is a massive blow to the Taliban
If Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been killed that is a major success which should help…
Damaging revelations make the CIA more risk averse
The latest revelations about the CIA’s prospective covert assassination program is yet another nail in the coffin of US intelligence…
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