From last night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the strategy in Afghanistan:

It isn’t as if Afghanistan sprung up on [Obama] a week ago. It has been around for eight years. He has been running for president for two years on a promise to resource the war adequately, to look at it seriously, and to win it. That’s what the Democrats had proposed.
So it has been a serious issue for over two years. He says in March – he announces on March 27 – “there is a new comprehensive strategy,” so he has been thinking about this. And then he added, which is not often remembered, “this comes at the conclusion of a review.”
Then he goes through all the people he consulted with [in that review]: the commanders on the ground, allies, NGOs and the governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan and members of Congress. It was a serious review in March.
He appoints his own general later and then he says two months ago it is a war of necessity. You would think he has thought it through.
And now all of a sudden he is rethinking it. It is because of the political pressure. The public opinion polls are going negative on him. He has gotten [resistance from] his left in the party, and it is all about the politics. It is not about the strategy.
You have the best generals in the world – McChrystal on counterterrorism and Petraeus on counterinsurgency – the best in the world who know exactly how this is done and who conclude you cannot do a counterterrorism strategy, only counterinsurgency.
And all of a sudden he is relying on Biden, Rahm Emanuel, and himself to go against the advice of these experts? Hard to believe.

On the president delaying his meeting with the Dalai Lama:

This is obviously a concession to the Chinese. I’m not against concessions but I want to see a concession that gets something in return of significance.
For 18 years, presidents have met the Dalai Lama. All of a sudden our president has delayed it. That is an obvious signal that everybody understands. It is bending a knee to the Chinese.
Look, if you want to bend a knee, get something in return. We sold out Taiwan in Nixon’s visit to China, but in return we got an extremely important strategic relationship.
Obama sells out — to the Russians — the Poles on missile defense, and he gets nothing. Concessions are OK, but a concession with no return is appeasement — and naiveté.