After visiting Fukushima a year ago, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported … and urged Japan to accept international help to stabilize dangerous spent fuel pools. … Read More
Netanyahu Apologizes as Isolated Israel Needs Turkey Deal
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Czech parliament approves pension reform in victory for PM Necas
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Ed Krayewski on the Interventionists’ Road to Benghazi
For all the mystery surrounding what exactly happened in Libya
on September 11, the basic facts are not in question: The U.S.
consulate in Benghazi and the nearby CIA annex was assaulted and
the American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were
killed. The Obama administration has been less than forthcoming
about events, and critics have rightly pressed for answers. The net
effect of all this, though, has been to create first and foremost a
political battle over whether someone lied to the press or to the
American people.
And so, writes Ed Krayewski, despite whoever wins Tuesday’s
election, the response to the murder of an American ambassador and
three others may well be the sort of action that will “be a gift to
jihadists.” What won’t be questioned is the sort of
intervention—unilaterally decided by the president and then
passively accepted by a pliant Congress—that dropped American
diplomats into an unstable situation that no one had a handle
on. View this article.
