Tag: Common sense

It's tough when things don't go your way, but Mr. President, they're only going to get tougher when you keep putting yourself in the way. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…

Charles Krauthammer spoke volumes, sometimes without speaking much at all. And now, the silence is deafening. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

Policymakers may have legitimate qualms about Trump’s nominee, but many are once again putting political theater above the country’s interests. Washington needs to be better and do better. Gina Haspel appears eminently qualified to lead the CIA, having served for more than three decades as an intelligence officer and station chief in various countries throughout the world. Maybe more important, people who have worked with her—CIA directors who have served both Republican and Democratic presidents, not to mention a wide range of CIA officers—have expressed their strong support for her nomination. At the same time that Haspel’s nomination was being politicized, the current administration was being actively undermined by a leader from the last one. And yet former Secretary of State John Kerry spent the last few weeks working explicitly against the foreign policy goals of the Trump administration. Now, his agenda is American policy. Americans want their leaders to immerse themselves in problem solving, not political gamesmanship. Gina Haspel should get fair consideration. John Kerry should leave the diplomacy to our current diplomats.