All of this makes me think that the Libya intervention will stand as a precedent for ten-or-so-days (or however long this lasts) of a congressionally unauthorized bombing campaign that the President deems to be in the U.S. interest, broadly conceived...
I'm not sure about the rising food price/political unrest issue--that could well be true. But I'm pretty sure that the Fed printing money/rising food prices link is weak...
by Josef Joffevia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Future historians will not accuse Mr. Obama of woolly-eyed idealism...But they [might] add that with his address on Libya he ended — or tried to end — America’s career as a power like no other...
by Daniel Pipesvia Corner (National Review Online)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Obama’s rejection of George W. Bush’s Middle East policies in large part fueled his own meteoric rise to the top of American politics...Two years later, what is striking is how much Obama’s policies have come to reflect Bush’s...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
My first reaction to the President Obama's speech is that he should have given it ten days ago. He didn't say anything tonight that he couldn't have said when he ordered combat operations to commence...
Previous statements about exits by Fed officials simply listed the tools that could be used in an exit strategy, but did not actually put forth an exit strategy. In contrast, President Plosser describes a specific strategy...
The most charitable explanation for President Obama's incoherent policy in Libya is that he suffers from the long-standing blind spot of the left when it comes to the use of force...
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the president’s address at the national Defense University, along with the administrations engagement with foreign countries as well as America’s enemies...
