The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines — a key bit of real estate which would offer a front seat to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.
Reach than ever. Did the president and the staff overplay their hand after an election far from a mandate to radically transform america . Ask our panel, deputy editorial page, editor Dan Henninger and kim strassel. Thanks for letting me be here. Dan, it seems like democrats are stuck with a local culture most americans dont want. They are in the middle, for sure but lets put this into context, the progressives, Democratic Left have been taking over the Democratic Party for at least the past or years. Yes, joe biden won the Presidency Running on a platform of moderation but nonetheless, i think they expected trump fatigue would give them bigger majority in the senate and the house then they got. They did not get that but nonetheless, that was not going to stop the progressives from pushing their agenda and they signed up joe biden and his proposing of the greatest array of entitlement of tax increases at least since the early 1960s, lbjs great societies. I do think it is a misreading o
surrender for the last seven months to. in the meantime rapidly building up their nuclear capability while also continuing to support their proxies attacking the united states and their allies across the region. the time for diplomacy on the nuclear program has ended. iran is using diplomacy to build up nuclear program. we need to enforce all the sanctions that are in place. we need to impose new sanctions and we need to make clear that we will not tolerate the kind of attacks we saw last week on american base by iranian proxies. bret: what do you say to somebody who listens to you on china and iran and says listen i don t want to get into a word. bret, in have you actually seen the face of war and carry off battle buddies dover air force base when they died overseas you are the last one that wants to see war. the way of protecting peace in the words of washington is to be prepared for war and deter aggressors like the ayatollahs xi jinping in china.