http://www.CommentaryMagazine.com/ en-us Copyright 2009, CommentaryMagazine.com. All Rights Reserved info@ecomsolutions.net info@ecomsolutions.net http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15299 Peter Savodnik reviews Robert Service's "Trotsky." Reviewed by Peter Savodnik http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15296 Jeane Kirkpatrick’s seminal article and what it has to teach us about the condition of Obama’s foreign policy. Ilan Wurman http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15293 The president’s abrogation of his predecessor’s agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic inaugurates a new era in which America’s word will not be its bond. Kejda Gjermani http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15292 The campaign to discredit the agency continues to be a leftist obsession. Arthur Herman http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15291 Michael J. Totten http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15290 A new report from the Anti-Defamation League makes virtually every critic of the Obama administration into a conspiracy-mongering threat to democracy -- a tactic that is itself very undemocratic. Jonathan S. Tobin http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15286 When the quest for "diversity" becomes an overarching concern in the U.S. military, the consequences can be deadly. George Seaver http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15285 This week the Israeli government announced it will resume negotiations with Syria without preconditions, and the Syrians responded in kind. Peace talks, if they ever actually start, aren't going anywhere, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows it. He's going through the motions so Western diplomats don't throw him and his country out in the cold. Syria's Bashar Assad knows it too. He's going through the motions so that he and his country can come in from the cold. Michael J. Totten http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15283 John H. Makin proposes simple fiscal measures, centered on tax cuts, to stimulate the sluggish economy. John H. Makin http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15282 It is an anniversary that should rank among the greatest we recognize: the fall of the Berlin Wall and, with it, the end of Soviet Communism and a successful conclusion to the Cold War. And yet it passes with very little attention, as almost an afterthought. It is an astonishing oversight on our part. Peter Wehner