tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16110511253049857652012-02-17T15:35:22.990-05:00Ted R. Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07171923613260471745noreply@blogger.comBlogger4511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-91939987457569042232012-02-13T15:34:00.000-05:002012-02-17T15:35:23.039-05:00

U.S. Must Address Critical Questions at Final Preparatory Committee on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #3500, February 13, 2012. "The final Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) will be held on February 13-17. The purpose of this PrepCom is to determine the rules of procedure for the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, which will be

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-85282560689325386322012-02-10T15:32:00.000-05:002012-02-17T15:33:20.434-05:00

Obama Retreats from Old Military Alliances, Yorkshire Post, February 10, 2012. "For the first time since the mid-1950s, Britain has a defense strategy that fails to mesh with America’s: it is best able to wage the kind of wars that the U.S. says it no longer cares to fight. The sad, sudden American retreat has badly dented the basis of Britain’s defense planning, and served a much wider notice

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-86706419589947062032012-02-09T15:29:00.000-05:002012-02-17T15:30:13.555-05:00

Syria: A Perfect Illustration of the Obama Doctrine’s Failure, Centre for Policy Studies, February 9, 2012. "Obama has little to gain by putting foreign policy on the front pages and, it would appear, little desire to put them front and center either. He needs only to do just enough -- in the form of speeches, symbolic actions, gestures to the left, and not very covert military operations -- to

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-7175676494136084322012-01-24T15:26:00.000-05:002012-02-17T15:27:34.615-05:00

American Leadership AWOL Again, Heritage Foundation Foundry, January 24, 2012. "The President’s remarks in his State of the Union Address on foreign policy were formulaic. This Address was about domestic policy and, ultimately, about the 2012 election, which the President clearly believes will be won or lost on the basis of his record at home. Unfortunately, that does not absolve him of his

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A View of Think-Tanks from America, Centre for Policy Studies, January 23, 2012. "Working as I do at the Heritage Foundation, and writing for the Centre for Policy Studies, may put me in danger of mistaking the trees for the forest. Still, British readers should check out Tevi Troy’s article “Devaluing the Think Tank,” in the latest issue of National Affairs, available free online. Troy’s claim

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-12450851335653724452012-01-20T15:54:00.002-05:002012-01-20T15:56:34.979-05:00

Politifact’s Pants on Fire, Contentions, January 20, 2012. "I’ve worked with PolitiFact before, and while I’ve not agreed with previous pieces, they were at least defensible. What it comes down to is that Romney’s claim is factually correct, but assessing the context would require a book-length analysis that would be subject to a wide amount of legitimate dispute over many factors, some of them

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-53767448070928675902012-01-18T15:53:00.000-05:002012-01-20T15:53:55.530-05:00

'Iron Lady' Bias Can't Diminish Thatcher, Contentions, January 18, 2012. "The Iron Lady is not a particularly good movie. In structure and feel, it’s much more a one-woman play than it is a film. But on the screen it’s a success nonetheless, if only because, perhaps without meaning to, it displays conviction politics in their purest, most elemental, and most attractive form."

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In Europe, Reducing Spending Necessary, But Not Sufficient, To Restore Economic Freedom, Heritage Foundation Foundry, January 17, 2012. "If the 2012 edition of Heritage’s Index of Economic Freedom has bad news for the United States, the news for Europe is not much better. The 43 nations of the European region did manage to lose less economic freedom than did the United States, but a decline is

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-53710974507254467122012-01-11T15:49:00.000-05:002012-01-20T15:57:45.951-05:00

Morning Bell" The Real 'Iron Lady', Heritage Foundation Foundry, January 11, 2012. "Tomorrow brings the nationwide release of The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Streep referred to the challenge of portraying Lady Thatcher as “daunting and exciting,” and as requiring “as much zeal, fervour and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses.” Her

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Blue State Travel to Cuba, Contentions, January 3, 2012. "A friend has forwarded me a solicitation from the University of Michigan’s Alumni Association to join them on a “Cultural Connection” visit to Cuba. It is a depressing piece of moral blindness. For $3,845, Wolverines can enjoy an eight day trip, complete with “a visit to a local health clinic” to “learn about socialized medicine and the

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Lessons on Defence Policy from America in 2012, Centre for Policy Studies, December 29, 2011. "My wish is that Britain will in 2012 learn a lesson from America on its defence policy. The lesson is not simply that Britain should spend more money on defence. It certainly should do that, but Britain’s limited and steadily shrinking defence budget is only a symptom of Britain’s underlying problem.

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-77789187041600103352011-12-27T13:27:00.000-05:002012-01-06T13:29:59.665-05:00

Government Must Be Both Limited And Competent, Yorkshire Post, December 27, 2011. "In his 1978 essay on “The Power of the Powerless,” the late Vaclav Havel wrote eloquently about the importance of that sign. Under Communism, a greengrocer puts a “Workers of the world, unite!” sign up in his window. He doesn’t care what the sign says, he cares what it means. And what it means is that he’s willing

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The Varying Fortunes of Red and Blue States, Part 2, Centre for Policy Studies, December 22, 2011. "When Henry Ford put the buggy whip manufacturers out of business, that was a good thing. But you’d never know this by listening to the President. All the evidence goes to show that he and his followers believe what they are saying. And that in turn goes some distance to explaining why America’s

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-27945049710636577532011-12-21T12:52:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:53:25.593-05:00

Biden on the Taliban: They Call It ‘Strategery', Contentions, December 21, 2011. "The problem is not that Obama and Biden are uninterested in the evidence of our failed efforts to engage the Taliban. The problem is that – as Max notes in another context – they want to get out of Afghanistan, and they believe that they can facilitate this in the American political context by depicting the Taliban

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-13244505895372148842011-12-21T12:42:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:43:23.740-05:00

The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Is A “Bulletproof” License to Sell, The Commentator, December 21, 2011. "The broader question is simple: how can a “bulletproof” treaty on the one hand require arms sellers to discriminate between good and bad regimes when supplying arms, and on the other hand demand that the treaty’s criteria not be applied in a discriminatory way? The answer is simple: this is not a

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-78312362814511874062011-12-19T12:57:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:57:31.277-05:00

The Varying Fortunes of Red and Blue States, Centre for Policy Studies, December 19, 2011. "What is striking is the number of firmly Democratic states that are delivering – and in many cases have delivered for decades – mediocre economic performances, frequently with huge pension bills impending to boot. Under the circumstances, it’s not surprising that they’re losing population."

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-81242629859271278082011-12-18T12:50:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:51:18.929-05:00

Britain's 'Isolation', Contentions, December 18, 2011. "To me, the funniest – and most revealing – part of the entire affair is the argument that Britain will suffer for its ‘isolation.’ The nicer version of the argument holds that the EU is about to make a lot of rules – or, to be more exact, about to make even more rules – that will be bad for Britain, and Britain needs to be at the table to

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-89807042243307877782011-12-16T12:48:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:48:55.809-05:00

The German 'Kebab Murders', Heritage Foundation Foundry, December 16, 2011. "What if in America there was a gang of neo-Nazis who, over the course of 14 years, murdered 10 people, nine of them “foreigners” and one a policewoman? What if the gang had also carried out a nail-bomb attack in an immigrant neighborhood? What if immigrant (in this case, Turkish) households and apartments were attacked

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-8119705462315832202011-12-16T12:40:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:41:29.371-05:00

Hypocrisy Alerts on the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty, Heritage Foundation Foundry, December 16, 2011. "There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the arms trade. One is that lots of nations supply arms to terrorists and dictators as a matter of policy, or because they simply want the money. Another is that many of the world’s nations do not control their own borders, or their own territory,

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-34096260274804417042011-12-16T12:34:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:35:24.308-05:00

U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons: What the U.S. Should Do, with Steven Groves, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3434, December 16, 2011. "On November 25, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), a U.N.-based process through which participating nations adopt protocols to regulate or limit the use of conventional weapons, failed to reach agreement on a new protocol to

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-31163834243168358862011-12-13T12:32:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:35:48.502-05:00

Why the U.S. Should Be Concerned About the Domestic Effects of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3430, December 13, 2011. "Negotiations for a new U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are supposed to be finalized in July 2012. Some of its supporters argue it would have no “impact on the ability of individuals within the United States to acquire and possess firearms.” Even if this

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-40018343173558139422011-12-12T12:54:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:57:50.140-05:00

Can There Be An Enduring Systematic Advantage in American Politics?, Centre for Policy Studies, December 12, 2011. "The quest for an enduring systematic, demographic advantage in American politics is doomed to failure. The evidence of the past 200 years is that, while one party or another can enjoy a temporary advantage, the nation is too large, too diverse and too mobile for either side to win

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-28358174837010883992011-12-10T12:44:00.000-05:002011-12-22T12:46:29.412-05:00

Why the Euro is Fighting a Losing Battle, with Sally McNamara, Foxnews.com, December 10, 2011. "The entire Eurozone economy hardly grew at all in the third quarter. This is not just a symptom of the crisis: it is a fundamental cause. Even if Greece abandons its fiscal sovereignty, it will still be 30 percent less competitive than Germany. A new European treaty might buck up the markets for a bit

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-62997720401173950842011-12-08T17:39:00.000-05:002011-12-09T17:41:21.766-05:00

Americans Move, But Will the Result Change?, Centre for Policy Studies, December 8, 2011. "The political effects of this shift are equally stark: in 2012, the Republicans will gain a net total of six electoral votes, if the states vote as they did in 2008. Of course it is unlikely that the state votes will remain unchanged, but the fact remains that President Obama will have to run harder in 2012

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-43156369767261637992011-12-02T17:37:00.000-05:002011-12-09T17:38:56.885-05:00

Obama Plays the Card of Financial Responsibility, Yorkshire Post, December 2, 2011. "Playing the responsible spender card is shrewd from another point of view. Americans naturally look on Congress with a degree of disdain, while according the President the respect that goes with his office. Right now, the American people have no particular affection for Obama, but their opinion of Congress could

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-91742013968258081332011-10-27T13:12:00.000-04:002011-11-10T13:17:19.648-05:00

Obama Goes Back to Base As Support Ebbs Away, Yorkshire Post, October 27, 2011. "It’s a good thing for the President that he has the power of incumbency, because he doesn’t have much else going for him. The coalition that won him the 2008 election has fragmented, and it cannot be pulled back together again. Many of the individuals in it will undoubtedly support Obama in 2012, but the broader

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-37443912932626457062011-10-24T13:18:00.000-04:002011-11-10T13:19:28.263-05:00

Force, Not Law, Got Qaddafi, Contentions, October 24, 2011. "Dan Pipes observes that Qaddafi is the sixth former tyrant to be tracked down like a common criminal in the past decade – Milosevic, Karadzic, and Mladic from Serbia, Hussein in Iraq, Bin Laden in Pakistan, and now Qaddafi. Very true, but what stands out to me about this list is that none of these successes had much to do with

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-20190018406680637782011-10-24T13:15:00.000-04:002011-11-10T13:17:07.711-05:00

Comparing Qaddafi and Mussolini, Contentions, October 24, 2011. "They were both centers of cults of personality, relentlessly occupied in trying to stir up trouble, bitterly hostile to democracy and to every manifestation of liberalism, with an overblown crackpot ideology that masqueraded as a self-sufficient cure for all ills, and a brutal regime that was treated far more seriously than its

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-32227930002420650952011-10-13T11:50:00.000-04:002011-10-14T11:51:41.566-04:00

Do Britain’s Conservatives Need More ‘Decontamination’?, Contentions, October 13, 2011. "The virtues of competence, which the Economist dismisses as “quibbles,” have in fact been central to Tory victories since the 1870s. Telling the Tories that they will win by getting nicer isn’t just unsupported by the evidence of 2010, where Cameron’s decontaminating A-List candidates, selected for winnable

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-6784219718750277192011-10-13T11:45:00.000-04:002011-10-14T11:52:22.279-04:00

Major Foreign Policy Addresses in the U.S. Campaign, Centre for Policy Studies, October 13, 2011. "Until Friday, as I noted last month, foreign policy played a mostly indirect role in the 2012 election campaign. In a way, that is no surprise: U.S. elections are rarely won or lost on foreign policy. But considered another way, it is a surprise. There is less daylight than one might think between

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-3761431899190901522011-10-06T11:48:00.000-04:002011-10-14T11:52:37.883-04:00

Steve Jobs, Uniquely American, Contentions, October 6, 2011. "Jobs may at times have denied that technology could genuinely change life, but as President Obama said in his statement yesterday, he “exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity” and “changed the way each of us sees the world.” On the subject of change, the last word belongs to Jobs. When he sought to recruit Pepsi’s John Sculley –

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-25548483359747614042011-10-06T11:47:00.000-04:002011-10-14T11:52:53.169-04:00

European Mobility and the Euro, Contentions, October 6, 2011. "One regular criticism of the Euro has long been that Euroland is made up of, as Milton Friedman put it, “different countries [with] different languages, limited mobility among them, and they’re affected differently by external events.” A recent column by Jay Cost brings home just how low that mobility actually is."

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Obama’s Leadership is Devaluing the West, and We Will All Pay the Penalty, Yorkshire Post, October 3, 2011. "If governments want to succeed on big matters, they need to get the small ones right. So much of the everyday work of governing is tiring and dull, but it is important. Managing programs, proposing bills, and dealing with the legislature is the price of winning last time, and the stuff of

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-19286226889021465942011-09-27T16:56:00.000-04:002011-09-30T16:57:16.434-04:00

No, Utilitarians Are Not Nice, Contentions, September 27, 2011. "It is all very well to suggest that legislation should seek to do more good that harm. But the problem with applying utilitarianism to legislation, in Bentham’s day or ours, is that someone has to decide which ends serve the greater good, just as the Ivy League experiments require someone to decide who lives and who dies, and just

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-91075610498294291022011-09-26T16:54:00.000-04:002011-09-30T16:55:01.557-04:00

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . . , Contentions, September 26, 2011. "But what comes through most clearly in Finn’s article is that the issues raising concern about military robotics are ethical and legal, not strategic. Unfortunately, the current emphasis on drones – both from enthusiasts and skeptics -- repeats the fallacy that Fred Kagan addressed half a decade ago: the way that the U.S. focus

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-22249022066381822822011-09-23T16:51:00.000-04:002011-09-30T16:52:48.933-04:00

The Soft Underbelly of Europe, Contentions, September 23, 2011. "The underlying problem in Europe is not financial, or even economic. It is that we are no longer in the historical era of nation-making, and the entire raison d’etre of the EU is, indeed, to oppose nationalism. As former Europhile Max Hastings has recently confessed, that itself is a kind of narrow-mindedness. But it is madness to

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-36699230751282586602011-09-23T16:48:00.000-04:002011-09-30T16:49:50.115-04:00

Asking the Wrong Questions About Drones, Contentions, September 23, 2011. "The larger problem is not that using drones undermines the confidence of our allies in uniform. It is that drones vastly reduce our ability to fight a counterinsurgency campaign by protecting local populations and collecting intelligence that allows us to prosecute the war more effectively."

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-44516137691038789842011-09-16T16:45:00.000-04:002011-10-22T17:58:43.566-04:00

Foreign Policy Enters the 2012 Race, Centre for Policy Studies, September 16, 2011. "What is more interesting, though, is the way that the Democratic defeat in NY-9, which the victorious Republican framed as a referendum on President Obama, shows how foreign policy is slipping into the 2012 race, at a time when all eyes seem to be focused on the economy."

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-79770474022007686142011-09-09T15:15:00.004-04:002011-09-09T15:33:26.677-04:00

9/11 Reflection: Ted Bromund, Yale Daily News, September 9, 2011. "I wasn’t scared by 9/11. What scared me after 9/11 was the reaction I saw at Yale."

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-30478281937157828212011-09-01T15:34:00.000-04:002011-09-09T15:37:48.489-04:00

Obama’s Top Ten Errors on Libya, Centre for Policy Studies, September 1, 2011. "Instead of focusing on the unknown – for we do not know what will come next in Libya – and trying to judge the war by its aftermath, we should give thought to the known, and judge the war by the consequences it has already produced. Here, therefore, are the top ten errors of President Obama’s conduct of the Libyan

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Riots Reveal to World How Britain Has Lost Its Values, Yorkshire Post, August 31, 2011. "As the liberal media are always eager to remind us – because it promotes moral relativism – Britain before the Victorians was a drunken and disorderly place. The Victorians couldn’t solve this problem completely, but they did enough to recast the British character, and to make it more than a stereotype. In

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-12037061330380312832011-08-02T10:43:00.000-04:002011-08-12T10:46:44.391-04:00

The Flaws of the Ottawa Convention, National Security Policy Proceedings, Spring 2011. "The Ottawa Convention looks likely to become another ABM Treaty or International Criminal Court: a commitment made by one administration that—because it poses dangers to our security and our sovereignty—will force a sensible future administration to spend a good deal of time, energy, and political capital

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-51922662650503722982011-08-01T14:30:00.001-04:002011-08-15T14:32:15.233-04:00

Charge of the Light Brigade Shows How U.S. Gets It Wrong, Yorkshire Post, August 1, 2011. "Governments are far from cunning. In that, they are like most everyone, except moreso. The problem is not that people in government are particularly stupid, or more evil than normal. It is that they have more power than anyone else, and they think they know what to do with it. The light bulb we need most

Ted Bromundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665210827365495580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611051125304985765.post-48748975806223826392011-07-27T13:16:00.001-04:002011-08-12T13:18:20.513-04:00

U.K. Defense Spending Increases: Welcome, But Not Enough, Heritage Foundation Foundry, July 26, 2011. "American commentators are beginning to react to a British announcement of a modest increase in defense spending. Any increase is welcome, but there is unfortunately a good deal less to this increase than meets the eye."

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Forty-Five Senators Express Concern on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, Heritage Foundation Foundry, July 26, 2011. "On July 15, the U.N. wrapped up its third and final Preparatory Committee meeting on its Arms Trade Treaty. After a last gathering devoted to procedural matters in early 2012, the U.N. will call a concluding conference in 2012 to adopt the treaty and open it for national ratification.

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The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: Still Seriously Flawed, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3322, July 21, 2011. "Previous meetings of the Preparatory Committee have made it clear that the treaty as contemplated poses serious threats to American liberties and interests, and to effective and serious diplomacy. The latest Committee meeting has not alleviated most of those concerns. But statements by both the

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US Leadership Melts Away Into Sands of Libya Over Obama’s Foolish Humanitarian Foray, Yorkshire Post, June 24, 2011. "It didn’t have to be this way. Across the Middle East, the perception is growing that the U.S., in its haste to find the exit, has forgotten the ironclad rule of the region: reward your friends and punish your enemies. Instead, the U.S. is trying to pacify quarrels by slapping

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Nothing but Nonsense and Headaches, Contentions, May 26, 2011. "President Obama’s address to Parliament in Westminster Hall yesterday was of a piece with all his other major public statements. In fact, it was all of his other major public statements. Except for the boilerplate on Britain, it was the same speech he has been giving since his inauguration: unobjectionable generalities coupled with

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Obama’s UK Speech: Rhetoric Cannot Substitute for Achievement, Heritage Foundation Foundry, May 25, 2011. "President Obama’s address to Britain’s Parliament in historic Westminster Hall was of a piece with many of his speeches: a mixture of soaring generalities and devils in the details, with some dubious history thrown in."

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What We’d Gain If Obama Had to Perform During Question Time in the House of Commons?, Fox News, May 25, 2011. "President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron spent part of yesterday playing ping pong, a sport that was invented in Britain. Cameron would have done better to introduce Obama to another of Britain’s distinctive institutions: question time in the House of Commons."

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U.S. Relations Must be Rooted in Reality Rather Than Rhetoric, Yorkshire Post, May 23, 2011. "It is not particularly depressing that there is little personal sympathy evident between Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama. Undoubtedly, the pomp and circumstance for which official Britain is famous will be deployed to effect, but the very fact that Obama is making a state visit testifies to

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President Obama Visits the Irish Financial Crisis, with J.D. Foster, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3266, May 20, 2011. "When President Obama visits Ireland on May 23–24, he is expected to visit Moneygall, in County Offaly, the ancestral home of his mother’s family. While finding Irish ancestors is a favorite electoral sport of American leaders, the President would be better advised to spend his

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What President Obama Should Tell Prime Minister Cameron About Britain’s Defense Cuts, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3265, May 20, 2011. "During his state visit to the United Kingdom on May 24–26, President Barack Obama should speak clearly to Prime Minister David Cameron about the serious damage that the latest round of British defense cuts is doing to Britain’s armed forces. The Special

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What President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron Should Do to Preserve the Anglo-American Special Relationship, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3264, May 20, 2011. "During his state visit to the United Kingdom on May 24–26, President Barack Obama should reaffirm the vital importance of the Special Relationship. This affirmation should go beyond words and address the tensions in the Anglo–American

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Back to the Future, Again: A Mini-Marshall Plan for Egypt?, Heritage Foundation Foundry, May 19, 2011. "Absolutely none of the conditions that conduced to the success of the Marshall Plan are present in Egypt, which is a poorly-governed, corrupt, ill-educated country with a backwards economy and a political system that is trending strongly towards an alliance of military authoritarians and

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Preserving the Special Relationship: A Conservative Agenda for President Obama’s State Visit to Great Britain, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2258, May 19, 2011. "The summit meeting in May between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron comes at an important moment in the Special Relationship between the United States and Great Britain. The two powers lead NATO, which has again

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Why Churchill’s Lessons on War and Peace Still Ring True Today, Fox News, May 13, 2011. "One of Churchill’s greatest speeches during this struggle came in 1934. His subject was simple: “The Causes of War.” In this broadcast, he dismissed the idea that the way to prevent war was to focus on teaching Britons to hate violence, for the threat to peace did not stem from Britain. It stemmed from “a

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Obama Has Shown His Leadership, But Now We Must See His Common Sense, Yorkshire Post, May 12, 2011. "After his election in 2008, President Barack Obama was occasionally lauded as the Reagan of the left, an orator of genius who would reshape the landscape of American politics for a generation. Two years later, the landscape was indeed reshaped – by the conservative landslide of 2010. The very

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British Vote May Doom the Liberal Democrats, Contentions, May 9, 2011. "The irony of the AV referendum is that the Lib Dems thought it would make them into Britain’s third party. Instead, it may end up destroying them, and in the process return Britain to a two-party system, which is ideally suited to the first past the post system for which the British people have shown such enthusiastic support

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Britain Votes on the Vote, Contentions, May 3, 2011. "In a party political sense, AV runs the risk of making the Liberal Democrats the permanent king-makers in British politics. More importantly, though, it risks cementing the dominance of establishment convictions: it is not so much a particular party that will benefit as a particular approach to politics."

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Are We Voting for a Better Democracy or Simply Ignoring the Real Problems?, Yorkshire Post, May 29, 2011. "The fault in Britain lies not in the system. It lies in the people who vote in it. The majority of the British people want more benefits than they are willing to pay for, so the state has run out of money. No one wants to be blown up by terrorists, but, for too many of the elite,

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The United States Should Not Join the Convention on Cluster Munitions, with Steve Groves, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2550, April 28, 2011. "The Convention on Cluster Munitions is a misbegotten treaty that neither advances the laws of war nor enhances security. It is an unverifiable, unenforceable, all-or-nothing exercise in moral suasion, not a serious diplomatic instrument. It creates

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone, Contentions, April 15, 2011. "William Hague, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, now says that “It would be useful to have a larger number of aircraft capable of striking ground targets.” Mr. Hague is right. What Britain needs now is an aircraft capable of taking off from an aircraft carrier conveniently parked off the coast of Libya, able to land on

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It's Beginning to Feel A Lot Like Kosovo, Contentions, April 15, 2011. "Does the Libyan affair remind anyone of Kosovo? It’s taking place on Europe’s borders, yet—as always when Europe’s hour strikes—no one from the EU is home. NATO has taken over, but most of its members are unenthusiastic. British leadership is a constant, while France has replaced Germany—even more riven by pacifism today

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Libya Mission Demonstrates That British Defense Cuts Must Be Reversed, with Nile Gardiner, Heritage Foundation WebMemo #3231, April 19, 2011. "The prime minister cannot effectively wage a major military campaign in Libya without reversing the crippling defense cuts his Coalition government has introduced, as well as significantly increasing defense spending. The government should reconsider the

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Britain’s Decline: Entitlements and the Armed Forces, BigPeace, April 13, 2011. "Byron York has a fine piece in the Examiner pointing out that, while Britain has taken a leading role in the Libyan intervention, there is almost nothing left militarily behind the curtain. The entire British stockpile of cruise missiles amounted to 64 when the war began, and Britain was careless enough to fire off

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What Bounces Off Me Sticks To You, Contentions, April 13, 2011. "To date, the Obama Administration’s strategy on internet freedom has been to talk a lot, but do absolutely nothing that would alienate China. Thanks to Senator Lugar, who led the charge on this issue, the Administration has been forced to step away just slightly from their strategy. The Chinese have told us very clearly what they

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Meet Barack O'Cameron, Contentions, April 11, 2011. "David Cameron has taken a leaf from the Book of Obama and launched a worldwide apology tour. On his recent visit to Pakistan, he rightly declined to get involved in Kashmir but for the wrong reasons. He said he does not 'want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for

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Tensions Ahead Over U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty, Heritage Foundation Foundry, April 11, 2011. "It’s a common-sense idea that criminals should not be able to escape justice in one country simply by fleeing to another. In this Internet age, it’s also common sense that citizens of one country should not be able commit crimes electronically in another without fear of punishment. This is the problem

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Last In, First Out, Contentions, March 30, 2011. "Commentators here and elsewhere have dissected the belated strengths and considerable weaknesses of the president’s speech on Libya. But no one has noted that the speech is yet another piece of evidence that this administration regards foreign policy as a problem to be overcome as rapidly as possible, not as an enduring challenge with serious

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Why There Is No Neutral, Contentions, March 28, 2011. "Nadia Schadlow has a fine essay at Foreign Policy which points out that many of the NGOs on which the U.S. and its allies are relying to contribute to the “Build” phase of the counterinsurgency strategy proclaim that they refuse to take sides in the conflict. It’s not just the Red Cross that believes it is “essential to provide neutral and

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Google, Wisconsin, and Distributional Coalitions, Big Government, March 25, 2011. "Over the past month, Google made waves with the announcement that it has tweaked its search algorithms to penalize ‘content farms.’ These are “low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content.” The lesson from Google is simple: no system devised by the mind of

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The Exceptional Battleground: A Controversy, The City, Spring 2011 edition, a publication of Houston Baptist University. "The United States is an exceptional nation. Most Americans would not regard that as a controversial statement. And there is a good reason for that: it is true."

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On Arming Those Libyan Rebels, Contentions, March 10, 2011. "Max Boot has argued that arming the Libyan rebels may be the best way to ensure that a prolonged conflict in that country doesn’t flood the world’s black market with arms. I am agnostic on this point: the world’s black market is flooded with arms in any case, and if I believed it was necessary or desirable to arm the rebels — though

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John Stuart Mill on Mercenaries in Libya, Contentions, March 9, 2011. "It’s not clear whether Muammar Qaddafi is importing mercenaries to help him (further) crush his own people. The Christian Science Monitor is inclined to credit the reports, while Human Rights Watch argues that the allegations are unconfirmed and arise from Qaddafi’s efforts to promote civil equality in Libya (no, really, that

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The Unrealism of the Russian Reset, Contentions, March 8, 2011. "Russia, I acknowledge, is not one of those places we can afford to dismiss diplomatically. Nuclear weapons and oil aside — and that is pretty much all Russia has going for it in the great power sweepstakes — Russia has a UN veto and an almost infinite capacity to make trouble, not least for our supply lines into Afghanistan. But it

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Libyan Revolution Reveals Foolishness of Arms Trade Treaty, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 4, 2011. "The Obama Administration has declared its support for the U.N.’s efforts to negotiate an arms trade treaty (ATT) that would regulate the transfer of conventional arms. This is unwise for many reasons. The following stories show just how an ATT, far from saving civilians, would actually tie

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The Dictators We Forgot, Contentions, March 4, 2011. "In the face of the Middle East’s revolutions, it’s easy to believe that the world’s dictators are comprised of autocrats we worked with (Mubarak), dictators we were trying to (Gaddafi), and dangerous regimes that won’t play ball (Iran). If only. The biggest category of all is the dictators we forgot."

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London School of Economics’ Ties to Libya the Tip of the Iceberg for Academia, Contentions, March 4, 2011. "The Director of the London School of Economics, Sir Howard Davies, has resigned after fresh revelations of LSE ties to Libya emerged on Thursday morning. The LSE was already under intense fire for taking a donation of 1.5 million pounds from Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who studied at LSE

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How Must America Practice Diplomacy?, Heritage Foundation, Understanding America Series, Essay Number Six, March 3, 2011. "The purpose of American diplomacy never changes: It is to secure the national interests of the United States. The fundamental American interest is to ensure that America remains independent and governed by the American people."

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U.S. Landmine Policy: Status and Prospects, lecture given to Center for Security Policy's National Security Lunch, February 25, 2011.

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Secretary Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and the Law of the Sea Treaty, Heritage Foundation Foundry, February 24, 2011. "Secretary Rumsfeld's memoir is a fascinating read, as reviewers both friendly and hostile have agreed. As the Secretary has been alive for one-third of the history of the United States—as he ruefully observed—it’s not surprising that his memoir is such a treasure

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The American Historical Association and Civics Education, Contentions, February 20, 2011. "The American Historical Association is propagandizing to save the Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program and Civic Education funding from the 2011 axe of the House of Representatives. As their e-mail to members puts it: 'To help our nation’s schools meet their civic mission to help students

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Internet Freedom, Back Again, Contentions, February 17, 2011. "It’s too soon to accept that the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions were simply caused by Facebook, Twitter, and the Internet. Technology enthusiasts naturally say such things, but theirs is the faith of the true believer. Still, the fact that these regimes tried to control the Net, and clamped down even harder when the streets

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PODCAST: Containing a Nuclear Iran, Heritage Foundation, February 16, 2011. "Can a nuclear Iran be contained? This podcast explores some of the difficulties with translating the Cold War policy of containment to Iran."

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As in Britain, Discontent Portends Danger for Defense, Heritage Foundation Foundry, February 16, 2011. "A look at Britain’s experience reveals the problem with making decisions about freezing or cutting defense spending on the basis of allegations about inadequate financial controls. In 2009, British politics were rocked by a series of leaks and then an exhaustive report that made many of the

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The Other Thing Containment Requires, Contentions, February 16, 2011. "Excessive taxation and borrowing hands over an ever-increasing portion of our economy to government control. This is incompatible with the strategy that won the Cold War, and completely incompatible with any future U.S. use of that strategy. We are not just borrowing the next generation into oblivion, as Pete points out. Our

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Fear Rules In The Nations Where Politics Is A Blood Sport Played Out In Real Blood, Yorkshire Post, February 15, 2011. "Yet the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, should remind us of one simple truth. The leaders of these countries, like autocrats around the world, were afraid. The autocrats are not just afraid of Western military power, though that does scare them. Nor are they simply afraid of

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Containing a Nuclear Iran: Difficult, Costly, and Dangerous, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2157, with James Phillips, February 14, 2011. "Proponents of a containment policy toward Iran are ignoring the harsh realities inherent in seriously pursuing such a policy. First, the U.S. has been trying to contain Iran since the Iranian revolution in 1979, with little success. If Iran develops a

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Pretending to Teach a Trade: From the Progressive Era to Today, Contentions, February 10, 2011. "Journalism schools are useless, argues Michael Lewis, but they prosper because they appeal to our worship of professionalism. That’s a nut graph — a nutshell paragraph — one bit of journalism jargon that Michael Lewis doesn’t grasp in his wildly entertaining piece on the Columbia School of

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Two Cheers for David Cameron on Multiculturalism, BigPeace, February 10, 2011. "I am slightly less encouraged than some commentators by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on “the doctrine of state multiculturalism.” The speech is certainly worth two cheers, and the fact that Cameron has said much of this before is no reason for him not to say it again, especially since he has never

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PODCAST: Wikileaks, New START, Harming Friends, Heritage Foundation, February 10, 2011.

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Is New START Compatible with the U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defence Agreement?, Heritage Foundation Foundry, February 9, 2011. "The Special Relationship between the U.S. and Britain has many facets, but at its core is close cooperation in the military and intelligence realms. And at the heart of our military cooperation is the U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defence Agreement. Signed in 1958, and renewed every ten

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A ‘Marshall Plan’ Sighting in Egypt, Contentions, February 9, 2011. "A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my list of inaccurate historical analogies that warn of further fallacies to come. The leading such analogy was “We need a Marshall Plan.” Sure enough, reliable as a broken watch, along comes Roger Cohen in the New York Times, demanding just such a plan, contradicting himself up and down, and

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That Good Old 'Pattern of Cooperation'," Contentions, February 8, 2011. "Over the last few days, the conservative media and blogosphere in the U.S. and Britain have been roiled by WikiLeaks documents suggesting that, in order to secure Russia’s agreement to the New START Treaty, the U.S. agreed to disclose information about the Trident missiles it transfers to Britain. Media Matters predictably

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New START and the Special Relationship: A Case to Answer, Heritage Foundation Foundry, February 8, 2011. "Last Friday, British newspapers reported that the U.S. had agreed to supply Russia with sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent in order to win Russian agreement to the New START Treaty. Over the weekend, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley described this claim as “bunk”

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Reagan Kept Faith in America, BigPeace, February 6, 2011. "One of Reagan’s greatest contributions was to return to the commonsense faith that America worked, that the Soviet Union could not, and that we should, and could, win the Cold War by playing to our strengths and against their weaknesses. He was a remarkable orator, and one who was not afraid to speak simple truths plainly: his statement

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CIFTA: Treaty Without a Purpose, Heritage Foundation Foundry, February 4, 2011. "CIFTA is a bad treaty: It poses serious risks to liberties guaranteed by the First and Second Amendments and would undermine U.S. sovereignty by legally binding it to fulfill obligations that some current signatories already disregard. The OAS’s latest statement on “Reducing the Threat of Arms and Munitions in the

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Reagan As Draftsman, Contentions, February 4, 2011. "Perhaps it’s not in keeping with Reagan’s legacy to lose hope. But I can’t help wondering if Reagan will be our last president who had the ability – even if none of them can be expected to have the time – to write his own speeches. If so, we will have lost something important. A president who cannot write clearly cannot be expected to think

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Cold War Revisionism Run Wild, Contentions, February 3, 2011. "As J.E. Dyer pointed out a few days ago, the standard treatment of the Cold War in the academy of the 1970s and 1980s was that it was a bad idea. That argument had many facets, but among the most consistently presented of them was the theme that the artificial Cold War scare had been used to justify close American relations with

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