Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Why Brexit Is In America's Interests

Ten Reasons to Rethink U.S. Support for British Membership of the European Union, Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4463, September 29, 2015. "The referendum and the terms of Britain’s relations with the EU are ultimately and always matters for the British people to decide. However, in advance of the referendum, the U.S. would be well advised to consider its own interests carefully and not to continue its unthinking support for the EU, which has marked the Obama Administration and too much of U.S. policy since the end of the Cold War."

Friday, September 25, 2015

The EU, A Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone

Refugee Crisis Exposes the EU’s Many Fatal Flaws, Yorkshire Post, September 25, 2015. "THE many thousands of refugees now reaching Europe have done more than anything, except the euro, to expose the myths behind the European Union. The tragedy is that it is those myths that will prevent an effective European response."

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Like It Or Not, We're Involved

The Refugees, the Europeans, and Us, Newsday, September 19, 2015. "The Obama administration never wanted to take the lead on the war in Syria. It hoped that, if we stayed out of the war, it wouldn't come to us. The wave of refugees now moving into Europe, and lapping at the shores of the United States, shows that assumption was wrong."

Saturday, September 5, 2015

The Administrative State and Foreign Policy

Three Lessons from the Iran Deal, Newsday, September 5, 2015. "One legacy of the Iran deal will be a richer Iran playing a bigger role in an even less peaceful Middle East. But there should be another legacy -- a thorough congressional scrutiny of the way the legislative body's grants of power to the executive have diminished its ability to play a serious role in shaping our foreign policy."

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Europe Pulls the Football Away

Europe Gives Trinidad the Charlie Brown Treatment, Daily Signal, September 3, 2015. "What I heard, again and again, was that, if the Arms Trade Treaty went to Trinidad, it would become a regional organization. And why was that? Because no Europeans wanted to work there. Europe needed the support of nations like Trinidad to make the treaty a reality. But in the end, they didn’t want to take the treaty outside Europe by forcing Europeans to actually live in Trinidad. Dedication to stopping the illicit arms trade only goes so far, apparently."