I like Obama, don’t get me wrong. But there are two things in particular that just drive me nuts every time he utters them.

Given the date, I thought it would be a good day to go over the differences between the two presidential candidates when it comes to The War on Terror. (If you were hoping that I’d discuss whether or not Senator Obama believes that Governor Palin is a barnyard animal, I’m sorry to disappoint.) [...]

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating as the Democrats gear up for Foreign Policy Day at their convention: the Iraq War was a bad idea for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with WMDs.

Right now, the United States is an active participant in two civil wars: Iraq and Afghanistan.

I apologize for not posting much lately. I’m in the middle of what will be a crazy couple of weeks here, so I might be writing much more sporadically on leftfielder than I normally do. I ask for your patience, and I promise I’ll be back to normal by mid-June.
In any case, as [...]

The conservative punditry has been going after Obama pretty hard lately for not visiting Iraq since the surge began. “How can he know what’s really happening?” they ask. McCain has been leading the chorus, as yet another way of implying that Obama is so young and inexperienced that he doesn’t know up from [...]

From a McCain Speech that he is expected to give today, as quoted by the New York Times:
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,’’ Mr. McCain is to say, according to excerpts of his speech provided [...]

John McCain gave a major foreign policy address today, outlining his support for a “League of Democracies”, pushing for closer ties with our major European and Asian allies, and generally trying to sound like a nicer, kindler, gentler version of President Bush. He also laid out his Iraq policy, once again. Here’s the [...]

Five years ago, the invasion of Iraq began. Five years ago, we were promised a short-term fight to get rid of Saddam Hussein and purge Iraq of WMDs. Five years later, we’re still there–and we’re in the middle of a presidential election that will determine what the future holds with regards to Iraq. [...]

One of my professors in graduate school once said that the only thing that changes with partition is to make civil wars into interstate wars.  I’ve been reminded of that comment lately as an increasingly large number of “experts” have come out favoring some form of partition in Iraq to “avoid a civil war” there.  [...]