The Obama Administration says it is planning a complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq for later this year, but the Iraqis are buying U.S.-made defense articles. And that is a good thing.
According to a notice in today’s Federal Register, the Defense Department published a 36(b) notification that it proposes to sell $82 million in [...]
In March 2011, the first thought that came to mind when the Obama Administration publicly discussed U.S.-Libya support operations – i.e., the writ of the international community – was Yul Brynner’s line in the epic 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments: “So let it be written, so let it be done.”
The POLITICO’s ARENA posed [...]
War Powers Act/Libya Debate is a Colossal Waste of Time
It was only a matter of time, since it is part of the statute, that there would be a national debate in the Congress on Libya pursuant to the War Powers Act. This unconstitutional Act is a favorite of the left and most Democrats, as [...]
The President’s Middle East speech at the State Department yesterday was the same old song. And while the media and beltway punditocracy tries to massage it, his comments on the 1967 borders were over the line.My response yesterday posted at the POLITICO sums it up:
The president and his national security team have it [...]
Over at the Legal Insurrection blog, Cornell School of Law Professor Jacobson penned an item that reminds us all of the lunacy that is the United Nations Human Rights Council:
Yemen government forces have cracked down leading to many deaths. Iran routinely decimates opposition protesters. So what is the U.N. Human Rights Council going to do [...]
Generally speaking export control laws are targeted, in part, to make it harder for bad people to gain access to advanced technology and weapons. They should not be used as foreign or humanitarian policy cudgels. It is a distraction and devolution. A recent report by the U.K. House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee [...]
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