Politics

The Bush administration empowered the Indian government in 2008 in a deal that allowed it to increase and modernize its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against Pakistan and China. Foreign Policy In Focus reports: Bush Administration Nuclear Policy Enabled India’s H-bomb Program In December, the Center for Public Integrity published an investigative report by Adrian Levy titled Experts worry that India is creating new fuel for an arsenal of H-bombs.

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump.

The consensus candidate of the Democratic Party elite, Hillary Clinton, has been thrown onto the defensive by a Socialist from Vermont who seems to want to burn down Wall Street.

Not so long ago, Clinton was pulling down $225,000 a speech from Goldman Sachs. Today, she sounds like William Jennings Bryan.

The Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said that ISIS has been funded with Turkish money for a long time. He said that Turkey supports terror instead of combating it and has permitted ISIS to enjoy “Turkish money for oil”. Speaking to reporters in Athens on Tuesday,  Ya’alon said: “As you know, Daesh enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time.

This argument from Ramesh Ponnuru is not very persuasive:

The conventional wisdom about the Republican primaries has repeatedly and rapidly changed. Originally Jeb Bush was said to be the favorite; then Marco Rubio; then we heard that “it’s going to be a Cruz-Rubio race”; then a Cruz-Trump one. The currently rising theory is that Trump will prevail.

Given the poor track record [bold mine-DL], maybe it’s time to let primary voters in a few states weigh in before making confident predictions, or endorsement decisions based on them.

Exclusive: In September 2002, as the Bush-43 administration was rolling out its ad campaign for invading Iraq because of alleged WMD, the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a briefing about the paucity of WMD evidence. But the report was shelved and the war went on, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains. By Ray McGovern There is a…