Category: Foreign Policy

  • By Selwyn Duke While there is some question as to whether President Obama has the resolve to prevent rogue nations from developing nuclear capability, he certainly is assuring that we don't maintain ours.  It has come to light that he is locking horns with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is advocating the replacement of our…

  • By Selwyn Duke With all the hoopla surrounding the upcoming election, some important stories get pushed to the background. One of them is the new assertiveness of the Taliban in the nuclear state of Pakistan. The nation’s military is now in a state of full-fledged war with the militants, and local tribal militias are joining…

  • By Selwyn Duke Russian jets bombed a Georgian airbase just outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday, and today Russia sent perhaps as many as 150 tanks into the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia in support of Russian separatists in the area.  Reports Reuters:

  • By Selwyn Duke We don’t hear as much as we should about Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean thug of a leader who has just stolen another election in his nation.  This is at least partially attributable to the fact that he’s not a politically-incorrect scoundrel, in that the group he most obviously persecutes is whites.  As…

  • By Selwyn Duke Over at JBS.org, Ann Shibler has an excellent piece about the European Union’s imminent arm-twisting of Ireland into acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty.  As some of you may know, the Irish recently rejected the treaty via a referendum, one in which 53.4 percent of the voters said nay (the margin was almost…

  • By Selwyn Duke It has received scant attention in the midst of our election season jostling, but a very explosive situation has developed in South America.  The Washington Times treated the matter yesterday, writing:

  • On Friday, FrontPageMagazine.com published an absolutely phenomenal article about our insane recognition of an "independent Kosovo," an action which helps to establish a Moslem beachhead in Europe.  The piece is written by Julia Gorin, and she does an excellent job of placing this matter in perspective, writing:

  • By Selwyn Duke There’s a very interesting writer named Lev Navrozov,  a quite cerebral fellow who treats some often neglected subjects.  One of them is the threat posed by China and its "post-nuclear super weapons," a danger most of us ignore, distracted as we are by more pressing concerns, such as racial profiling, electing socialists,…

  • By Selwyn Duke As preoccupied as we are with Islamic terrorism, it’s easy to ignore the perhaps even greater threat posed by China.   China is a burgeoning nation — ambitious, technologically savvy, ruthless — and she dwarfs us in population.  She wants to supplant us as the world’s "hegemon," and we had better take notice.

  • By Selwyn Duke We hear lots of criticism of the Iraq venture from the left, right and center.  There is everything from silly notions about presidential prevarication to how “it is only about oil” to one-world government conspiracy theories.  Yet, while military action can rise from policy objectives, it’s often ignored that policy objectives tend…