As the administration fiddles and fumbles with its soft- on-terror policies at home, one Obama-blessed campaign abroad is hitting al Qaeda and its franchises hard: the drone war.
Drones work. They kill terrorists. Important terrorists. And we don’t have to squabble about where to put their shredded bodies on trial.
For all the billions poured into Afghan [...]
by Peter Beinart
Things look bad now, and your party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, the Democrats will be united—and the public’s faith in government can be restored.
Democrats win elections by convincing Americans that government can work. Republicans win elections by convincing them that it can’t. Right now, the GOP [...]
Spending is up nearly 24% since Bush’s last full budget year.
By KARL ROVE
After President Obama devoted much of 2009 to health care and global warming—two issues far down Americans’ list of concerns—the White House says he will pivot to jobs and deficit reduction in his State of the Union speech in a few weeks. The [...]
FORMER VICE president Richard B. Cheney on Wednesday joined a Republican chorus criticizing the Obama administration’s decision to charge alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in federal court. Mr. Cheney and others argue that Mr. Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas, should have been held as an [...]
By Eugene Robinson
WASHINGTON — It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls [...]
George Jahn
Another year has passed in the world’s standoff with Iran and North Korea over nuclear weapons, and the situation has only gotten worse.
Both countries have pressed ahead with their programs, while the U.N. has stuck to sanctions that seem to have little if any effect, and a slew of other countries are now seen [...]
By MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI
MCLEAN, Va. — On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with the Taliban if they think the United States is heading for the [...]
By Jack Kelly
From the standpoint of politics, this decision makes no sense. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday, only 34 percent of Americans support the decision to try the al-Qaida leaders in a federal district court. Sixty-four percent said they should be tried by a military commission, as the Bush administration planned [...]
New legislation may make it easier for the Obama administration to keep its word and close the infamous detention center. Whether the detainees are to be tried in federal courts or military commissions would remain unresolved.
Virtually the first order of business for Barack Obama after his inauguration was a series of executive orders aimed at [...]
Chemistry between Biden and Obama has worked better than expected
WASHINGTON – Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn’t given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife Jill, “I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I’d pick up the phone and call.”
It turns out [...]
