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Hardly a day goes by without Donald Trump doing or saying something to make his presidency a laughing stock. A recent highlight (or lowlight) had him shooting paper towels like basketballs into a crowd of cheering reporters during a photo-op stop in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. He reportedly thought this would provide a sign of hope… Read more.
Former President Barack Obama is making news today for a speech he delivered yesterday before the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal. Local media hailed it as a “rock star” performance. Never mind that he did little more than regale wistful Canadians with trademark insights and reassurances about what portends for world affairs in this… Read more.
Around 21,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two months, as Burmese forces launched what one UN official says is ‘getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity’ [aka ‘clearance operations’ or religious cleansing]. TIME reports from the Bangladesh border, where the full horror is only just… Read more.
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday… He dominated his country with… Read more.
I am truly stupefied that so many people still have so much interest in the presidential election that ended so decisively eight days ago. Nothing is more annoying in this respect than people taking to the streets to protest the free and fair election of Donald Trump – complete with their delusional rallying cry, “He’s… Read more.
The U.S. will slow the pace of its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving 8,400 troops there when President Barack Obama completes his term, Obama announced Wednesday in a blunt acknowledgment that America will remain entangled there despite his aspirations to end the war. In a statement at the White House, Obama said the security situation in… Read more.
Me: Ask Vladimir Putin. During his recent trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, President Obama seized every opportunity to rebuke African leaders for the administrative incompetence and endemic corruption that have kept their countries mired in poverty and strife. But I suspect nothing made them squirm quite like the way Obama criticized their habit of defying… Read more.
On Friday, Barack Obama became the first sitting president of the United States to visit Kenya. For Kenyans, it was a long time coming. But Obama finally gave them the love and recognition they longed for since 2008, when Americans elected this “son of Kenya” president, making him the most powerful man in the world.… Read more.
Obama ran for president by highlighting differences between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and those he intended to pursue. Except that I annoyed fellow liberals by pointing out the similarities between Bush’s policies and those Obama began pursuing almost from day one of his presidency. In fact, commentaries as early as “Obama Angers… Read more.
I’m not going to insult your intelligence by delineating the obvious symmetries/analogies any further. I’m merely imploring Western leaders—who might eventually have to play Churchill and FDR to Putin’s Hitler—to show that you’ve learned from history by standing up to this bully if he even attempts to take Crimea… Don’t stand by and let him… Read more.
