Outgoing President George W. Bush, earned his tactical spurs in Afghanistan and Iraq. There can be no doubting the stunning military victories, respectively in 2001 and 2003, that liberated 60 million inhabitants of these two blighted countries. It will become an important part of his presidential legacy. But it is an unfortunate exaggeration to suggest Mr. Bush rolled back Islamic terrorism, as Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation has written. Granted, there has been no further attack on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, and on Europe since July 7, 2005. However, Mr. Gardiner's contention "The broader war against Islamist terrorism has also been a success" ignores the larger world in which al Qaeda, its affiliates and companions in arms are actively and successfully at work.
Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation and specialist in U.S.-Britain and U.S.-Europe relations. An opponent of the new Reform Treaty, he spoke to David R. Sands of The Washington Times about his objections to the treaty and the upcoming ratification process. QUESTION: Why does the European Union need a constitution?
A budget thought: Writes Commonwealth Foundation scholar Nathan A. Benefield on the state budget machinations: "(T)here are those who think that state taxpayers should fund WAMs, buy Nintendo Wiis for seniors, contract with top ad men, give grants to ACORN, fund sports stadiums and movies and deny any wasteful spending -- and believe these examples all merit higher taxes to pay for them." Remember these clowns on the next appropriate Election Day. Ireland's capitulation: Heritage Foundation scholar Nile Gardiner says Ireland's ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon "will pave the way for the biggest erosion of national sovereignty in Europe" since World War II. More formally known as the European Reform Treaty, it essentially is "a blueprint for a European superstate," writes Mr. Gardiner...
New information about the business dealings of Paul Volcker, head of the independent inquiry into the U.N. Oil for Food Program, threatens to overshadow the findings in the panel's interim report, which is scheduled to be released early this month. Mr. Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, is an honorable man. But recently, Heritage Foundation scholar Nile Gardiner and Fox News Channel correspondent Jonathan Hunt have reported new information suggesting the Volcker probe could be sidetracked by questions about his personal and business relationships with potential targets of the investigation.
.... (66.) See Nile Gardiner & James Jay Carafano, The Great EU Inquis...
American taxpayers contributed a staggering $7.7 billion to the United Nations system in 2010, including 22 percent of the world body's regular budget. In fact, the United States pays more than all the permanent members of the Security Council combined, 13 times more than Russia and seven times more than China. It is natural therefore that Washington should expect value in return for the hard- earned tax dollars of U.S. citizens. Yet the U.N. remains a massive disappointment, a bloated unaccountable bureaucracy rife with mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency. Indeed, if it were a business, it would have been forced to close its doors decades ago.
...* Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher ...
President Obama has returned from his grand tour of Europe that took in Ireland, Britain, France and Poland. While overseas, he was feted by large crowds and fawned over by European political elites. Even in London, he was given a hugely warm welcome. Despite an embarrassing track record of insulting America's closest friend and ally, he was rewarded with a state visit and the honor of an address to Parliament.
...president AWOL or unwilling to lead. * Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher ...
The head of Sawyer-Miller's international division was Mark Miilloch Brown, formerly a journalist with the Economist who had befriended Vargas Llosa (who lost the race to political newcomer Alberto Fujirnori, later notorious for declaring martial law and finally overthrown and driven into exile after 10 years in power). Brown went on to say, in a commencement address at Pace University School of Law in 2005, that "President Bush's push for freedom and democracy will run aground on the shoals of American exceptionalism if the United States keeps apart from the emerging international legal system"-a reference to U.S. opposilion to the Kyoto treaty on the environment and the International Criminal Court.
...," according to the Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardiner in a piece for National Review. Gardiner,...
Things are going from bad to worse for the United Nations. The latest complication for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's attempt to control the damage in the Oil for Food scandal is the resignation of Anna Di Lellio, spokeswoman for the Independent Inquiry Commission into the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, for slurs against the president of the United States and the prime minister of Italy. Her departure is welcome. But the question remains: How could someone who believes the president of the United States is a threat to world peace analogous to Osama bin Laden have been appointed to such a sensitive position with the Volcker panel in the first place? In a research paper published last month, Heritage Foundation policy analysts Nile Gardin...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - They gave him their hearts when he visited last summer. Now, the question hanging over Europe is how much more they'll give Barack Obama as he returns for the first time as president of the United States. Obama leaves on Tuesday on a whirlwind eight-day tour. He remains enormously popular in Europe, and the throngs that greeted him last year as a candidate are likely to grow. With first lady Michelle Obama along, Obama's debut on the world stage as president already is inspiring anticipation of the kind of rock-star reception that greeted John and Jackie Kennedy on their first trip as first couple to Europe in 1961.
... the European Union itself is balking," said Nile Gardiner, a scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a ...
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