Obama: Hey, let’s eliminate nuclear weapons

Ready to invade Pakistan?

The big question will be whether Pervez Musharraf can keep Pakistani nukes from falling into terrorist control once we start crossing the border. US action will almost certainly radicalize the population, and the next election might produce a highly pro-Islamist government as a result. That risks the worst-case scenario: terrorists gaining control of nuclear weapons. India would have to react to the threat of a potential nuclear exchange in that case, and the US would face extreme pressure to act — which could start a regional war in south Asia.

On the other hand, the Pakistanis cannot maintain their own sovereignty now in the FATA. American operations in the region might convince the tribes that siding with terrorists over Islamabad is too dangerous for their continued health. It could work to force the regions back to the control of the Pakistani Army in the long run, and in the short run we can destroy the terrorist infrastructure that has expanded along the border. It’s a big gamble, but the status quo is unacceptable.

Why not hold it in Mecca? Oh, yeah ….

Bad news:

Observers say the conference was being held in Spain partly because it would be politically unpalatable for Abdullah to allow Jewish and Christian leaders on Saudi soil.

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UN’s highest court tells Texas not to execute foreign nationals

Biden: The “bad guys” don’t live in Iraq

So saith the Democrats’ supreme foreign policy expert and quite possibly our next Secretary of State, a guy who (a) used to advocate a “soft partition” of Iraq in the knowledge that the surge would never work; (b) previously called for sending U.S. troops into Darfur, presumably on the theory that “the bad guys” live there; and (c) even within the parameters of his own impoverished view that the “bad guys” encompass no one outside Osama’s inner circle still manages to miss the fact that, yes indeed, some of the bad guys have been known to turn up in Iraq from time to time. See Dean Barnett for a longer response to this idiocy, which raises the left’s visceral discomfort with the idea of jihadist elements in Iraq having anything to do with Al Qaeda to almost Trutheresque proportions. Exit question: Biden does realize, doesn’t he, that the “bad guys” don’t live in Afghanistan either?

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On Tuesday, the president went much further in showing his ex-oilman's knowledge of the dynamics of the domestic oil industry and the global energy markets.

Drilling for more domestic oil, he said, would "change the psychology that demand will constantly outstrip supply." Although "it's going to take a while to get these reserves on line," he added "it won't take a while to send a signal to the world that we're willing to use new technologies to find oil reserves here at home."

The president described how the oil market currently sees that "supplies are going to stay stagnant while demand rises. And that's reflected somewhat in the price of crude oil," which affects the price at the pump.

It therefore makes sense "to say to the world that we're going to use new technologies to explore for oil and gas in the United States — offshore oil, ANWR, oil shale projects — to . . . send a clear message that the supplies of oil will increase."

Increased conservation, which already is happening, can also help, he added. But the president emphasized that "There is no immediate fix . . . . It took us a while to get here and we need to have a good strategy to get out of it."

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On Tuesday, the president went much further in showing his ex-oilman's knowledge of the dynamics of the domestic oil industry and the global energy markets.

Drilling for more domestic oil, he said, would "change the psychology that demand will constantly outstrip supply." Although "it's going to take a while to get these reserves on line," he added "it won't take a while to send a signal to the world that we're willing to use new technologies to find oil reserves here at home."

The president described how the oil market currently sees that "supplies are going to stay stagnant while demand rises. And that's reflected somewhat in the price of crude oil," which affects the price at the pump.

It therefore makes sense "to say to the world that we're going to use new technologies to explore for oil and gas in the United States — offshore oil, ANWR, oil shale projects — to . . . send a clear message that the supplies of oil will increase."

Increased conservation, which already is happening, can also help, he added. But the president emphasized that "There is no immediate fix . . . . It took us a while to get here and we need to have a good strategy to get out of it."

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Illegal aliens are here illegally, and the companies that hire them do so illegally. ICE is merely enforcing the laws of the United States, laws that Obama will swear to faithfully execute if he's elected president. Unless Obama has really embraced the ideas reflected in the organization's name.