Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic candidate for president, is at it again with another rude gaffe, this one providing an unintended glimpse of the way many contemporary cosmopolitan elites characterize their homeland when abroad. Download PDF

The outcome: an attempt to appease Hitler through the betrayal of Czechoslovakia. “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor,” Winston Churchill remarked at the time. “They chose dishonor. They will have war.”In 1972, Munich again was linked to appeasement.Against this backdrop, last weekend I attended the 43rd annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, a gathering of the international political elite. Download PDF

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited US President George W Bush in Washington on 4 January, just days after Germany assumed the rotating presidencies of the European Union and the Group of Eight major industrialized nations. Merkel said the visit was supposed to be a signal that transatlantic relations would be an important issue for Germany during its six months as leader of Europe and the G-8. Download PDF

The execution on 30 December of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator, was (not surprisingly) greeted with the reflexive moral superiority complex that has come to characterize the anti-death penalty left wingers who make up much of today’s European news media. Download PDF

Hassan Nasrallah is to Pan-Islamism what Gamal Abd-Nasser was to Pan-Arabism. His Islamic argument refers to religion as the neuralgic nucleus of the national identity and in this manner nourishes the pride of being a part of the mentioned identity. Download PDF

Europe’s left-wingers are elated about the outcome of the recent mid-tern elections in the United States. Indeed, newspapers across the continent greeted the news that Democrats have gained control of the US House and Senate with jubilation. Germany’s reliably anti-American Der Spiegel surmised that the Democratic sweep heralds the beginning of a new era in US foreign policy. Spain’s leftist El País, notoriously better at sensationalism than solid journalism, ran a simplistic headline reading: “US Sentences the Bush Era”. Oh really? Download PDF

It's difficult to say what motivates someone to take his own life, but when three Militant Islamists coordinate their suicides, as happened recently at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, there is at least a basis for speculation. Download PDF Descargar PDF

If Bill Clinton had unveiled George W. Bush´s Iran policy, we would have called it appeasement. Even when implemented by an infinitely more responsible president, this “fresh start” approach has the potential to reward our avowed enemies, finance worldwide jihadists, teach terrorist fanatics that nuclear brinksmanship pays – and still result in an atomic Tehran. Download PDF Descargar PDF

A man who can't bear to pick up an American newspaper, or listen to a radio news bulletin, or watch a political talk show, because every square peg of an event is being hammered into the round hole of the same narrative, the only narrative our culture knows: This is Vietnam, it's a quagmire, we can't win, and the longer we delay losing and scuttling and getting the hell outta there, the more wicked things we will do. And, lookie here, whaddaya know, here comes the Sunni version of the My Lai massacre. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Every sensible immigration policy has two objectives: (1) to regain control of our borders so that it is we who decide who enters and (2) to find a way to normalize and legalize the situation of the 11 million illegals among us. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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