Daniel Greenfield

War, What is it Good For?

On one extreme of the liberal narrative, war, like firearms, is an innate evil. It is said to occur because politicians and businessmen get together in one secret room and decide to puff up their profits and political fortunes with jingoism and a military campaign. The fancy name for this particular conspiracy theory is the military-industrial complex.

Sympathy for America’s Devils

For the past decade, the sight of Western liberals gathering in defense of terrorists seeking to impose a medieval patriarchal cult on the rest of the world by force seems incongruously odd. What is there about Islam that is so appealing to the erstwhile defenders of minorities, women and gays-- all of whom have next to no rights under Islam?

Israel’s Obama Problem

Hints have begun trickling out of Washington D.C. that the Obama administration has realized that it went too far in attacking Israel, and may now be looking to take a step back. With general opposition from Israelis, street protests, and a forceful rejection from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the failure of Obama's approach is fairly obvious. But that doesn't mean that Israel's Obama problem is over. Not by a long shot.

ObamaCare’s Prescription for Death

The big lie of those advocating socialized medicine in America is that government mandate can give everyone the health care they need. The truth is that every system of medicine shortchanges some to the benefit of others. The only difference lies in how many options those who are shortchanged have to get access to health care anyway.

Obama’s Six Month Policy Implosion

Six months in and the Obama Administration looks a lot like the Bush Administration did after 8 years, with policy messes on every side, growing public discomfort with the direction the country is taking, and no clue what to do next.

How Celebrity Trumped American Politics

Are we a nation of individuals or a great collective worshiping our leaders. That is one of the fundamental questions behind the present day cultural malaise. The America that French General Lafayette fell in love with on his visits here during the 17th and 18th centuries was markedly different from Europe because it was a nation of individuals, a place where the humblest farmer did not defer to the wealthiest man, where class was an economic fact that could and was transcended by hard work.

If You Would Have War, Prepare for Peace

A Roman tactician once coined the maxim, "If you would have peace, prepare for war." Hence the motto of the Strategic Air Command, which was ready at a moment's notice to rain nuclear fire across the world, was "Peace is our Profession", displayed beneath a mailed fist holding both the olive branch and the thunderbolt. The message to potential enemies was painfully clear. Choose.

We’re From the Government, and We’re Here to Help

The best argument against any new government program, is government itself. Were the United States government a corporation, its business model would make Enron, Countrywide and Bernard Madoff look like models of rock solid corporate responsibility. The kind of corporation that goes trillions of dollars into debt, buys wrenches at a thousand dollars a pop and spends much of its budget on kickbacks for the friends of its boards members.

Through the Media’s Eye

The death of Walter Cronkite has occasioned an outpouring of grief for the media personality dubbed "The Most Trusted Man in America", by the media's own polls. Cronkite, like Woodward and Bernstein, or Neil Sheehan, served as a turning point as the media's love affair with itself went from creating its own icons, to treating those icons as a vital part of the national culture.

Stopping the Cycle of Violence

The "Cycle of Violence" is a phrase that has become a fundamental part of the liberal lexicon. Its key point is to imply that violence is itself a useless tool for stopping violence, in the process it morally equates all forms of violence, whether it is the police officer returning fire at an armed robber, a soldier firing on a terrorist, or a homeowner firing in defense of his family. The phrase "Cycle of Violence" renders them all equally wrong and equally hopeless.

We Must Destroy the Economy to Save the Economy

Paul Krugman is to the Obama administration's economic policy, what Lysenko was to Stalinist agriculture.  Reading Krugman is an education in how socialist regimes rely on a court jester to give their unworkable and destructive policies the veneer of legitimacy.

An Absent Leader and a World on the Verge of War

The Indian military projects that a Chinese invasion will occur within the decade. Thousands of Japanese families leave the country every year out of fear that a nuclear attack from North Korea is now inevitable. The Russian military squats looking over Georgia and the Ukraine, planning to retake their former Warsaw Pact territories.

Mercy for the Enemy, No Mercy for your Own

On July 25th, 2006, Company C of the Golani Brigade's 51st Battalion entered the Shiite town of Bint Jibeil in Lebanon. In biblical times Bint Jibeil was the city of En Hazor where the Tribe of Naphtali had once dwelled, before the Assyrians drove them out into captivity. The Jewish residents were gone, and when the Assyrians had passed on, it became Phoenician and then Greek, to be renamed Daughter of Byblos or in the Arabic of its final conquerors, Bint Jibeil.

The Two Types of Republicans that Liberals Hate

There are two types of Republicans that liberal Democrats hate above all else with an unreasoning venom that borders on madness. The first is the American Populist and the second is the Government Organizer.

The Tolerance Surplus

If you ask American, Israeli and European liberals and leftists what the key problem with Islam is, they will answer that there is a lack of tolerance. Not of course a lack of tolerance on the part of the throat-slitters, car burners, gang rapists, car bombers and hate preachers of Islam. On the contrary they will assert that there is a great tolerance deficit on the part of Western nations toward Islam.

The Jewish Problem

The Jewish problem has always been around. When Jews lived in their homeland, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and then Arabs again, swept through Israel with the sword and the torch. Over and over again, the Jewish population of Israel was murdered and enslaved, the land was emptied and renamed, new populations were imported to take their place. Then the subjugating empire would fall, the Jews would return, reclaim their holy places, build new homes, plant vineyards and cultivate fields. And the cycle would begin again.

Looking Back on the Life of Barack Obama

-Satire (CNN) Celebrity News Network - Now with More Holograms! - August 13, 2038 He was the first black President of the United States, and he also became its last President when in 2019, after his term in office had been extended indefinitely by HR:0666 or "The Hope and Faith in Obama's Everlasting Presidency Act" (Holo-Link), he was forced to leave office because the government had run out of money to pay for itself.

The Cost of Global Warming Greed

How do you make money? You could build a factory that makes chairs or open a store that sells chairs. But of course if you're in the government, you make money by finding new sources of tax revenue, which helps justify giving yourself a salary hike. But what if you're not officially in the government? That's what pork is for, and while environmentalists don't seem to like cows very much, they do love their pork.

What is the Two State Solution supposed to Solve anyway?

With all the talk about a Two State Solution, the question should be asked, what is it coming to solve anyway?

How Many More Birthdays Does America Have Left?

As America celebrates its 233rd birthday, it is worth taking a moment to ask, How many more birthdays does America have left?