Now White House wants to go 'beyond' a no-fly zone
Suddenly after weeks of dithering and mixed signals punctuated by periods of impenetrable silence, the Obama administration has leapt into the Libyan conflict with both feet. Or, at least, it has...
View ArticleDid the White House order a cover-up over the murder of Libya's US Ambassador?
Immediately after the murder of Chris Stevens, America's Ambassador to Libya, I suggested that the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11 could have profound consequences for President...
View ArticleSusan Rice was brought down by the long shadow of Benghazi, not race or gender
A good guest has to know when to leave the party. Susan Rice wasn’t a good guest. She waited until well after midnight, when everyone was tapping their watches and thinking of bed. Her insistent...
View ArticleThe fight over the Secretary of Defence's appointment shows how detached from...
If plebgate is getting you down about Westminster, it may be therapeutic to turn your attention, briefly, to the epically dysfunctional state of American politics. You might assume that the Obama...
View ArticleObama picks Susan Rice for national security adviser. He might have bad taste...
The breaking news is that the Prez has tapped Susan Rice to become his new national security adviser. This is the lady who earlier this year had to withdraw from the running to become secretary of...
View ArticleObama's blunders over Bowe Bergdahl are a bad sign for what's left of his...
Even by the standards of the Barack Obama second-term White House – think back to the frantic Fosbury flops over those Syria "red lines" – the handling of Bowe Bergdahl's release has been spectacular...
View ArticleWhat was Susan Rice thinking when she praised Bowe Bergdahl?
Susan Rice has done it again. Defending the deal that freed Sgt Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban, the national security adviser declared that Bergdahl had "served the United States with honour and...
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