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Obama’s “Hot Mic” and America’s Pointless European Missile Defense System

By Matt Fay, on March 28th, 2012

By now the GOP national security establishment is sufficiently apoplectic over President Obama’s off-the-cuff statement at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul to outgoing Russian President Dimitry Medvedev that he’d have more “flexibility” on missile defense after November’s election. There have been the usual accusations of Obama’s appeasement of Moscow and his selling out of American national security. Fortunately Jacob Heilbrunn at the National Interest responds to the wailing with a cold dose of reality:

The good news would be if Obama really was prevaricating—if he was secretly prepared to jettison an expensive and worthless missile-defense program that is . . .
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The Wrong Way to Argue Against Nuclear Disarmament

By Matt Fay, on January 17th, 2012

Last Monday, the blog for the Weekly Standard offered an argument against President Obama’s nuclear disarmament agenda so filled with factually errors and serial inaccuracies it is amazing the magazine’s editors allowed it to run. The post, by Mark Davis, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush, makes three claims in particular need of challenge: uncritically repeating the flawed findings of a Georgetown University team about the size of China’s nuclear arsenal, misstating the conclusions of the IAEA’s most recent report on Iran, and flat-out lying about President Obama’s stated timeframe for achieving the goal of nuclear disarmament.

The . . .
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On Libya, U.S. Must Send Signal to Europeans: Pay for Your Own Security

By Harrison Moar, on April 19th, 2011

In my last post, I criticized the Washington Post’s editorial, “The Libya stalemate,” for mischaracterizing the Obama administration’s reasoning behind taking a supporting role in the Libya military operation. The calculation behind this policy is not ideological, but more likely a compromise within the administration and an acknowledgement by President Obama of the unintended consequences if the United States is the lead actor and responsible for the outcome in Libya.

But regardless of how the White House reached this policy, there is a crucial strategic reason for the President to remain resolute in his decision. This represents a critical . . .
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Obama’s “Hot Mic” and America’s Pointless European Missile Defense System

The Wrong Way to Argue Against Nuclear Disarmament

On Libya, U.S. Must Send Signal to Europeans: Pay for Your Own Security

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