<![CDATA[ - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/15935.xml Author <![CDATA[Obama Made Middle East Our New 'Quagmire']]> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500 Quagmire” is a term commonly associated with Vietnam, but we need to haul it out of storage. There is no other way to describe the mess the Obama administration has led us into in the Middle East.

President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have addressed the region’s “arc of crisis” more or less incoherently since each took office. Until recently, it seemed they might luck out: The war in Syria, while worsening, was more or less contained; Iraq simmered under the Shiite-chauvinism of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but it wasn’t boiling over.

]]> <![CDATA[Embarrassed TSA Goes After Pilot]]> Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600 It wasn't me. I almost wish that it was, but it wasn't.

I am not the pilot who found himself in hot water for posting scandalous security videos on YouTube.

The pilot, whose name has not been released, uploaded a series of clips taken at San Francisco International Airport. His intent was to expose the insane double standard of TSA's airport employee screening policies: Although pilots and flight attendants are required to pass through the same concourse checkpoints as passengers, many ground workers, including baggage handlers, caterers and cabin cleaners, are exempt from these checks. The YouTube segments, which have since been taken down, showed ground employees passing...]]> <![CDATA[Don't Hate the Airlines]]> Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500