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EDITORIAL
No Substitute for Victory
by William Kristol and Frederick W. Kagan

SCRAPBOOK
Media on Palin: 'War of the Worlds, II'

ARTICLES
Obamanomics 101
by Fred Barnes

Eric Holder's Horrible Hearing
by Mary Katharine Ham

Malign Neglect
by Stephen F. Hayes

Obama Blunders Through Asia
by Ross Terrill

German-Iranian Relations
by Benjamin Weinthal

Time for a Dose of Protectionism?
by Irwin M. Stelzer

Going Backwards in Beirut
by Peter Berkowitz

FEATURES
The Adventures of Low Impact Man
by Matt Labash

BOOKS & ARTS
Man with a Horn
by Ted Gioia

Prophet Disarmed
by Arch Puddington

Europe's Temblor
by Lawrence Klepp

The Yenta
by Joseph Epstein

Plus-Size Pathology
by John Podhoretz

CASUAL
The Turkey Vanishes
by Claudia Anderson

PARODY
Obama Chooses a Turkey to Pardon


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Obama Blames America

On Fox News yesterday, Obama, asked about Iran, said:

"The fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah."

This statement goes to the very heart of what's wrong with Obama's foreign policy view, and the leftward swing of the Democratic party back toward the orthodoxies of McGovern and Carter. The fact is, the Iranians have not been developing nuclear weapons and funding terrorist proxies across the Middle East because "we" won't talk to them. They are doing these things because their country is run by a fanatical, revolutionary regime that wants to dominate the Middle East.

But, as Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, "They always blame America first."

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