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Articles Written by: JAMES S. ROBBINS
Calling it a “significant blow” to the operations of a major Mexican drug cartel, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday the arrests of 303 people and the seizure of illegal drugs, weapons and millions of dollars over the past two days in a ...
From LIZ ROBBINS AND JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.,
The New York Times,
22 Oct 2009
It is not surprising that Iran had a hidden nuclear enrichment facility at Qom; all the known aspects of their nuclear program were developed in secret and shielded from view as long as possible. The intelligence community knew about this for years, ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
25 Sep 2009
Osama bin Laden's latest taped statement came hot on the heels of a video from henchman Ayman al Zawahiri denouncing President Obama's trip to Egypt. But despite the coincidence of timing the Osama tape does not directly address Obama's Middle East ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
4 Jun 2009
Is President Obama tracking the threat of nuclear proliferation? He denounced “North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons,” which strikes one as a little odd since Pyongyang is well beyond the development stage and has moved on to testing. Our ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
25 May 2009
Sri Lankan authorities report that they have killed Tamil Tiger terror group leader Vellipulai Prabhakaran, a satisfactory end to the 26-year reign of terror he waged in Sri Lanka. Other LTTE leaders were said to have committed suicide in their ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
18 May 2009
I was interested in the number of times Presdent Obama invoked 9/11 in his Afghanistan speech. Wasn't that something President Bush took a lot of guff for from the left? And given the number of snarky cheap shots he took at Bush, the substance of Obama' ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
27 Mar 2009
I understand that in the liberal national security milieu each of these points stands as an indictment of what they perceive to be George Bush's approach to national security, and in particular his execution of the war in Iraq. But that view is ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
27 Feb 2009
The Democrats, and President Obama in particular, have backed themselves into a corner in Afghanistan. For several years the Afghan effort served as the rhetorical counterpoint to the war in Iraq; since they did not want to support "Bush's War," it ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
29 Jan 2009
According to the Times of London, the Obama administration is seeking ways to bring down Zimbabwe's government. That's fine by me, but wasn't Obama supposed to be all about engagement, respect, listening, etc? And since he apparently has no principled ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
28 Jan 2009
In retrospect, the original sin of the detainee policy was the notion of "unlawful combatant" status, an ill-defined concept utilized to skirt various aspects of the Geneva Conventions regarding POWs. This was a fatal contradiction, since the Bush ...
From JAMES S. ROBBINS,
The Corner,
22 Jan 2009
