All the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins. Winston Churchill

By Con George-Kotzabasis--Originally written and published in Nemesis on October 12, 2009

President Obama’s “knife-throw… Read full post »

A discussion between a Norwegian and an Australian

America’s Credibility Problem Persists Despite Obama’s Popularity

By Ben Katcher, Washington Note. September 10, 2009

Posted by Paul Norheim, Sep 11 2009, 12:53AM - Link

WIGWAG: "As for Paul's comment about American exceptionalism, I have… Read full post »

The following essay was written in March 2006 and first published on my blog Power Politics on the same date. And at the prodding of my 'malicious fairy' I'm throwing the cat among the pigeons.

Charles Krauthammer in his latest Op-Ed in The Washington Post under a savvy and provocative caption “It’s Your Country Too, Mr President,” exposes the beginnings of the weakening of the United States under President Obama. But the ultimate judgment on Obama will be rendered by a Sh… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis reply to:Watching Death

Day and Night So Close By...By Steve Clemons Washington Note 

All those who continue to approach this tragic conflict, which emanates from an array of past soft failed policies implemented by the U.S., the EU, and their Middle East allies, with o… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis A response to:

President Obama’s First Foreign Policy Success –and it’s Only Day One

By Amjad Attalah Washington Note January 20, 2009 

Amjad Attalah must be in a cavorting jocular mood. He ludicrously, for him maybe seriously, claims that the “c… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis 

Unlike the evolution of species from an imperfect state to a more advanced one, the evolution of war, as a result of the huge increase in the fire-power of armaments and lethal military techniques, in reverse is a development for the worst. Througho… Read full post »

A response by Con George –Kotzabasis to:
To the American pro-Israel pro-Peace activist group J Street

J Street Statement on Gaza Attack
Washington Note, December 27, 2008

This is political frolicking at its best by J Street. And for Clemons to give it the political prominence it does not deserve… Read full post »

The following was written on June, 2007. It's republished on Salon showing how misconceived and wrong about the war some of the top-notch commentators in the American media were that will haunt their reputations for ever after.

 By Con George-Kotzabasis 

When men’s pride swells i… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis

The attack on Mumbai is the continuation of terror by all means. The question is whether the civilized people of the world in this struggle for existence will be expecting the U.S.A., under the new incoming administration, which is the only nation that can defeat these warrio… Read full post »

The Cold War Ends By Ali Ettefagh Postglobal, Washington Post, January 2, 2008

A response by Con George-Kotzabasis

The Iranian commentator Dr. Ali Ettefagh has laid Iran’s libido dominandi on his psychoanalyst’s couch and has given us his professional prognostic diagnosis that it’s r… Read full post »

Will the American electorate be susceptible to the false idealistic promptings of a confused weak leader? 

 A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to a Bush contrarian 

Only the poverty of thought can make a statement such as the”poor republicans...through no fault of their own.”… Read full post »

How clever of professor Krugman to use his “Four legs good, two legs bad” drill to open a hole to the old debate about the levity of the decision of the Iraq war encapsulated in his “They attacked us, and we are going to strike back.” After failing… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis

A retort to: Bush Will Address The Nation

By Steve Clemons The Washington Note September 29, 2008

My dear Steve, I’m saying this with great regret that your ‘amok’ propensity and desire to blame the Bush administration “for the reckless stewardship of… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis

Barack Obama in another crucial test of leadership--the others were his withdrawal of troops from Iraq and his diplomatic parlay with Iran—has irretrievably failed. In his response to John McCain’s proposal to suspend their campaign and postpone their debate that… Read full post »

A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to:

Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies New York Times September 11, 2008

Paul Krugman’s “blizzard of lies” turns out to be a summer breeze. His article is a treatise in intellectual disingenuity. Palin never said she did not support the bridge in t… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis 

The political cradle of America is rocking! On September 04, 2008, the United States has given birth and laid in its cradle a sassy, vigorous, kicking, and bouncing new baby characteristically named the American iron lady. Sarah Palin on that unexpectedly wondrous day h… Read full post »

The following article is republished in this blog to show that some of the top pundits in the US and in the EU were abysmally wrong in their prognostications about the outcome of the war in Iraq.  

By Con George-Kotzabasis a reply to:

All the President’s Enablers by Paul Kru… Read full post »

By Con George-Kotzabasis

And at the end a reply by Steve Clemons of the Washington Note

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