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War in Libya: Act II

By: James Jay Carafano 03/30/11 1:51 AM
NATO has intervened. So what’s next? Gaddafi is only part of the problem. In every conflict since 9-11, terrorists have sought opportunity in chaos and tried to flood the battleground with foreign fighters. Read More

Officer Obama

By: Nate Beeler 03/29/11 7:40 PM
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Obama makes direct Libya pitch to columnists

By: Brian Hughes 03/29/11 10:41 AM
President Obama's sales pitch, of sorts, for the war in Libya was a bit more personal for some of the country's most prominent columnists. Read More

Admiral: U.S. studying Libyan rebels -- after going to war on their behalf

By: Byron York 03/29/11 8:37 AM
Admiral James Stavridis, commander of NATO and overall chief of U.S. and coalition forces in the Libyan war, says American intelligence agents are "examining very closely" the rebel forces for whom U.S. forces have gone to war.  So far, Stavridis says, the U.S. has discovered "flickers" of the presence of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, although Stavridis calls the opposition leadership "responsible." Read More

President Obama’s unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, not-shrinking-from-the-use-of-force speech

By: William Kristol 03/29/11 7:34 AM
I knew pretty early on during tonight’s speech that President Obama had rejoined—or joined—the historical American foreign policy mainstream. It was when he mentioned Charlotte (the city, not the spider): Read More

US had no choice in Libya

By: Arthur I. Cyr 03/28/11 8:19 PM
‘There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” This favorite saying of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, repeated regularly during the terrible challenges of World War II, speaks directly to current efforts to rein in and overthrow Libya’s brutal dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. Read More

What next in Libya, Mr. President?

By: Ann McFeatters 03/28/11 2:30 AM
Retired Gen. Montgomery Meigs has it right: The United States could not thumb its nose at the United Nations when it voted that the civilized world had to prevent genocide in Libya.Meigs is a thinker who studied at many institutions, including MIT. He has a Ph.D. in history. He is a West Pointer, Purple Heart recipient and former commander of the 2nd Brigade in Desert Storm. He served in Vietnam and Bosnia and commanded NATO’s multinational division. Read More

Liberal slams Obama silence on Libya

By: Michael Barone 03/27/11 8:21 AM
If you want to read a really stinging column on Barack Obama’s failure to make a speech on his decision to go to war (er, make that “kinetic military action”) in Iraq, don’t stop with conservative Peggy Noonan’s piece in the Wall Street Journal. Read More

Let's give the war in Libya a chance

By: William Kristol 03/27/11 8:00 AM
It's not war but a time-limited, scope-limited military action. The United States has been in the lead, but will be stepping back, ASAP, in favor of command (supposedly) by a squabbling coalition of the not-so-willing. The objective of the kinetic military action which is going to last days, not weeks, unless it does last weeks isnt regime change in Libya. Our broader objective, however, is to topple Moammar Gadhafi. Read More

Gates: Libya not in U.S. interest. Clinton: Yes, it is.

By: Byron York 03/27/11 6:59 AM
As the war in Libya moves into its second week, tag-team Sunday talk show appearances by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State suggest the Obama administration remains divided over the fundamental question of whether the war is in the United States' national interest. Read More

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