Jeanne Kirkpatrick

• Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick: scholar diplomat, and patriot.

Editor's Note: In his praise of Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, the author highlights her contributions to U. S. national security during an earlier ...

• American Diplomacy
• Nbr. 2006, September 2006

• U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, 1982

"Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters." _______ (Copyright 2009)Provided by P...

• Charleston Gazette
• October 27, 2009

• Potter's Field; Magical Thinking; State Panel Creates Bias Out of Thin Air

The NAS board of advisors has more than 30 members, but it's dominated by representatives of conservative think tanks such as the Manhattan Insititute and the American Enterprise Institute. It boasts famous neocons including Irving Kristol and Jeanne Kirkpatrick, plus luminaries such as Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield, who once testified that the "kinky sexual practices" of gays threaten to "undermine civilization." (He did, however, credit gays for "excel[ling] in the arts.") Not surprisingly, [Stephen H. Balch]'s organization gets ample support from foundations controlled by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife. In recent years, the Sarah Scaife Foundation has contributed a quarter-million dollars a year. While Balch cited course curricula he didn't approve of,...

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 06, 2009

• Remarks: the resort to drones under international law.

...(33) Louis Henkin in his famous debate with Jeanne Kirkpatrick in the 1980s, later published in the b...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 4, September 2011

• 'The Enemy ... Is Us'; .Head: ; the Pogobama Worldview in Operation

Perhaps the most famous line in the history of cartoons is one Walt Kelly gave his much-beloved character, Pogo: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Increasingly, it appears Barack Obama feels the same way about America. Call it the PogObama worldview. The president's first 100 days have been a blur of legislative initiatives, policy pronouncements and symbolic gestures that, taken together, constitute the most sweeping and fundamental makeover of U.S. domestic and foreign policies since at least World War II. Animating them all is a hostility toward this country's traditional values, institutions and conduct that is best described by Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick's phrase "blame America first.

• The Washington Times
• April 21, 2009

• Kennedy Equates U.S. To Saddam

Twenty years ago, former U.N. ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick coined the phrase "the blame-America-first crowd" to describe Democrats' attitude when any problem cropped up around the globe. "When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the 'blame America first crowd' didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States," Kirkpatrick...

• Human Events
• July 30, 2009

• 'Spiteful Defiance' ; Security Council Takes On North Korea

Some people always blame America first, as Jeanne Kirkpatrick memorably said at the Republican Convention in 1988. And they are at it again. Former Clinton administration officials are now believe it or not accusing the White House of having created "the axis of evil" by articulating the concept. "'Axis of Evil' comes back to haunt the United States," stated a Washington Post headline on Oct. 10. As though by stating the obvious in President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, he had created the reality we now have to deal with, as North Korea and Iran pursue their quest for nuclear weapons. With respect to the axis of evil," said James Steinberg deputy national security advisor to Bill Clinton, "are you better off today than you were four year ago? ..it's clear that the answer is ...

• The Washington Times
• October 18, 2006

• San Francisco Democrats Again

Twenty-one years ago, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, the former Democrat appointed the United States ambassador to the United Nations by President Reagan, denounced the "San Francisco Democrats" in a landmark speech to the Republican National Convention. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was referring to the strident tone with which Democrats attacked Mr. Reagan's foreign policy - in particular his efforts to rebuild the American military and to defeat Communism in Central America - at their convention in San Francisco one month earlier, where they selected former Vice President Walter Mondale as their party's standardbearer in the 1984 presidential election. The foreign-policy McGovernism critiqued by Mrs. Kirkpatrick should have become anathema after Mr. Reagan was re-elected in a 49- state landslide that Novemb...

• The Washington Times
• December 12, 2005

• How 'new' are 'new wars'? Global economic change and the study of civil war.

...Jonas Savimbi, at one stage lauded by Jeanne Kirkpatrick as "one of the few authentic heroes of...

• Global Governance
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 4, October 2003

• Kirkpatrick Was a Firebrand

In its extended obituary, the New York Times referred to Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick as a woman with "strong diplomatic stands" and "undiplomatic language." As the ambassador to the United Nations, she was, indeed, a firebrand -- calling other nations out for their "base lies" and "malicious attacks. Kirkpatrick died at age 80 on Friday. Over the decades she not only served in the U.N. post, but was a player in the National Security Group and was even considered a presidential contender at one point. People responded well to her no-nonsense style. If Congress worried that recent U.N. ambassador John Bolton was too headstrong and harsh, one wonders what they would have had to say about Kirkpatrick.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• December 11, 2006