John R. Guardiano
As we conservatives celebrate the centennial of Reagan’s birth, we should be careful to explain and defend his decisive role in bringing about the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. I say this because…
The conservative pessimists are out in full force today here at The American Spectator; and I could not disagree with them more. Ben Stein, for instance, laments that “our (sort of) pal in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is under siege,” and…
John Tabin provides a sharp and well-informed analysis of the Obama administration’s manifest failures vis-à-vis Egypt. But one question that must be answered — because it is distorting our collective understanding of how the United States should respond — is…
James Antle laments that our “recent track record for democracy promotion in the [Middle East and North Africa] is frankly not very good.” He points to the “numerous false starts — the Iraqi elections, the Cedar Revolution, the Green Revolution…
To a significant extent, President Obama’s innate caution and temperamentally conservative nature have served him well. It’s why he has reneged on his campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay. And it is why (after much dithering and indecision, admittedly) he…
James Antle and John Tabin both make important points about democratization in Egypt and the Middle East. Antle rightly notes that “creating democracy where it has never existed before is extremely difficult and requires a great deal more than just…
Are Republicans in danger of making the same mistake that George H. W. Bush made in 1991? Bush, you will recall, was wary of “instability” in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. Thus, he delivered his infamous “Chicken…
Old and weak-minded generals mistakenly fight the last war. Old and weak-minded analysts mistakenly fight the last revolution. So it is that many conservatives — even many so-called experts — on Fox News and elsewhere, have been impugning the Egyptian…
Obama’s declaration last night that “this is our generation’s Sputnik moment” has been met with too much scorn and derision in the conservative blogosphere. Understandably so: for too many on the left, Sputnik is simply a manufactured excuse to keep…
As John Tabin reports, Keith Olbermann has been canned. This after being temporarily suspended in November for making political campaign contributions to Democratic congressional candidates. Olbermann’s suspension in November was bogus. Say what you will about the man, he never…
