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That was fast! On Sunday, after President Biden announced he would not run for a second term, Vice President Harris declared her intention to “earn and win” the Democratic nomination. In less than 24 hours, she had apparently secured all the delegates needed to lock up the nomination.

Which raises a question: Why did no one challenge her? After all, Harris is undeniably vulnerable. She ran a catastrophic campaign for president four years ago, flaming out before even reaching the Iowa caucuses. Her public approval has hovered around that of Biden, who is himself one of the most unpopular presidents in 70 years.…  Seguir leyendo »

How Trump can make NATO great again

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As NATO gathers for its 75th anniversary summit in Washington this week, President Biden is taking credit for the fact that European allies and Canada have increased defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and warning that, if elected, Donald Trump will “eviscerate NATO”.

In fact, Trump, not Biden, is responsible for most of that spending increase. In 2006, allies pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, but when Trump took office a decade later, only three were meeting their commitment, and spending by non-U.S. members had dropped to an all-time low of 1.4 percent in 2015.…  Seguir leyendo »

This is the ‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine

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As Ukraine begins its spring counteroffensive, a 60 percent majority of Republicans say we should stand with Ukraine until Russia is defeated, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll conducted in March. But GOP support is softening. The share of Republicans who say the United States is providing too much aid to Ukraine has steadily increased from 9 percent right after the Russian invasion to 40 percent today, according to a Pew Research Center poll in January.

Many wavering Republicans are frustrated by the lack of a clear strategy for victory from the Biden administration. They hear Ukraine skeptics on the right arguing that the war is costing too much, depleting our military readiness, increasing the risk of nuclear confrontation with Russia and distracting us from the larger threat posed by Communist China.…  Seguir leyendo »

Gen. Jack Keane with soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, in Fallujah, Iraq, in July 2003. (John Moore/AP)

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Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane knows how to win wars. A former vice chief of staff of the Army, Keane is the intellectual author of the 2007 “surge” strategy that turned around the war in Iraq. My American Enterprise Institute colleague Danielle Pletka and I recently interviewed Keane on our podcast. We asked him what winning in Ukraine would look like and how it could be accomplished.

For this week’s column, I’m highlighting some of Keane’s most insightful comments. The transcript below has our truncated questions, with Keane’s answers edited for style and clarity. You can listen to the entire interview here.…  Seguir leyendo »

El Papa Benedicto XVI en la Basílica de San Pedro el 13 de febrero de 2013. Murió el 31 de diciembre de 2022, último día del año. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)

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Cinco días antes de su muerte en 2005, el papa Juan Pablo II se asomó a la ventana con vista a la plaza de San Pedro para dar el que sería su último mensaje del domingo de Pascua. Pero cuando abrió la boca, nada salió de ella. Muchos en la plaza, y millones más que miraban por televisión, se conmovieron hasta las lágrimas mientras el papa intentaba repetidas veces, con un dolor palpable, dar su bendición de Pascua. Finalmente, Juan Pablo II se hundió de nuevo en su silla, golpeando con su puño con evidente frustración.

En ese instante, lidiando con su agonía, Juan Pablo II se erigió como un reproche a un mundo utilitarista que abraza cada vez más una cultura de muerte que descarta a los más débiles entre nosotros —desde los no nacidos hasta los ancianos— y los trata como una carga y una incomodidad.…  Seguir leyendo »

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President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has been compared with the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. But in the wake of Thursday’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, what we are seeing in Afghanistan is far worse than a repeat of Saigon, 1975; it is now a repeat of Beirut, 1983.

On Oct. 23, 1983, terrorists detonated a truck bomb at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American service members who were participating in a peacekeeping operation. Three months later, after failing to retaliate in any meaningful fashion, President Ronald Reagan withdrew all U.S. forces from Beirut. Reagan’s decision to cut and run had disastrous consequences.…  Seguir leyendo »

Taliban fighters inside the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on Aug. 15. (Zabi Karimi/AP)

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Remember “Baghdad Bob”, the Iraqi information minister who, as U.S. forces entered the capital, insisted that there were no Americans in Baghdad? That’s what President Biden is beginning to sound like with his delusional insistence that no Americans were having trouble getting to the Kabul airport, no allies were calling into question the United States’ credibility, and that the United States had no interest in Afghanistan because al-Qaeda was “gone”.

Really? If that last claim were true, then how did the Afghan military manage to kill al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu Muhsin al-Masri, in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last October? Al-Masri was on the FBI’s most wanted list for conspiracy to kill Americans.…  Seguir leyendo »

A man pulls a girl to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Aug. 16. (Stringer/Reuters)

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On Sep. 11, 2001, Americans literally fell from the sky — jumping from the top floors of the World Trade Center to escape the fires set by al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime that aided and abetted them. Today, almost two decades later, it is our Afghan allies who are falling from the sky — after clinging to the fuselage of a U.S. military aircraft taking off from the Kabul airport, in a desperate effort to escape the Taliban regime.

The debacle President Biden has unleashed in Afghanistan today is the most shameful thing I have witnessed over three decades in Washington.…  Seguir leyendo »

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We continue to learn more about the Chinese Communist regime’s lies and culpability in the global coronavirus pandemic. But if you want to see the difference between how a totalitarian and a free Chinese society handles a public health emergency, just contrast the actions of the People’s Republic with those of the Republic of China, Taiwan. One is responsible for unleashing a contagion that has infected more than 2 million people; the other has all but defeated the virus.

Taiwan should have seen the second-largest outbreak of covid-19 in the world, according to an analysis published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association.…  Seguir leyendo »