Matt Sanchez

Live from Baghdad

2009-01-09T16:50:38-05:00

Today, in the Fox News Strategy Room, we had the opportunity to speak to members of the Iraqi parliament and one of the American ambassadors to Iraq.

My question involved the fate of the Iraqis who worked with American forces in the hopes of coming to the United States.

The show was an hour long, one of my questions is toward the end of this segment. A tip of the hat to David Mac Dougall who despite the technological hurdles delivered an informative show.

White Burden

2009-01-09T13:00:17-05:00

The white man's guilt

Posted: January 09, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

"The future is really bright for people like you; our time is pretty much through."

Last weekend, I met with a college friend, a Marine Corps captain who fought in the initial push into Iraq, back in 2003.

"It's pretty much over for white guys like me," my friend said in the same manner someone surrenders the keys to a house after a ill-fated attempt to keep current on the mortgage, except this Marine captain wasn't turning over a home; he was referring to civilization and the United States itself.

"You guys are the future."

Hamas vs. Israeli Forces

2009-01-06T17:10:26-05:00

My first column for Fox News.com

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD

Hamas' Overmatched Weaponry Could Prove Deadly to Israelis Nonetheless

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

By Matt Sanchez

This Israeli 800 px-Tavor assault rifle is designed specifically for close quarter combat.

Israeli soldiers are equipped with some of the most advanced personal weaponry available to a modern military, but they nonetheless face great danger on the ground in Gaza.

The Islamist militant group Hamas, masters of asymmetrical warfare, has several key weapons that can inflict heavy casualties on an invading force, despite being overmatched. These weapons were not of great concern to Israel when it was attacking from sea and air. But the danger has increased exponentially since Israel launched its ground assault over the weekend. cont...

The Cult of Kennedy

2008-12-27T08:42:50-05:00

The cult of Kennedy

Living in New York City can really warp the way you see the rest of the country. Only on the tiny island of Manhattan is the idea of giving a senatorial seat to a woman because of her family name considered to be a brilliant political move, but that is the case of one of New York's favorite philanthropists Caroline Kennedy.

It takes a liberal Democrat to form the concept of the "royal" politician as so many liberals have done in the sycophantic worship of the Kennedy family. The United States media christened the John F. Kennedy's administration Camelot based on the shallow premise that his model looks wife wore designer clothes, spoke some French and the vibrant "Jack" Kennedy supposedly inspired a young generation to join the Peace Corps, when so many of them wanted to avoid the military service.

The envy of the Upper East Side

When you "uh like" look this great, what do you need experience for?

The media myth of the Kennedy presidency quickly met with the Cold War realities of the early '60s.

Within his short-lived administration, John F. Kennedy botched the invasion of Cuba by refusing to provide air support at the Bay of Pigs, signed a blank check for American troop involvement in Vietnam and capitulated to Soviet pressure at the Cuban Missile crisis by withdrawing military support from Turkey and allowing the Soviets free reign in a very unstable part of the world. It is not difficult to connect the dots between Kennedy's withdrawal from areas like Afghanistan, to the invasion of that country by the "godless communist" and the eventual backlash of both the Taliban and al-Qaida.

But for the media and much of America the king of Camelot could do no wrong. The hysteria of political royalty made the president's brother, Robert F. Kennedy, publicly acceptable for the job of attorney general, despite the obvious charges of nepotism.

"Bobby" Kennedy was unduly credited with aiding in the fight for civil rights when, in fact, he was mostly doing his job by enforcing earlier legislation and was more prone to dragging his feet on equal rights legislation for fear of alienating the southern Democrat base. Attorney General Kennedy ordered the FBI wire-tapping of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a surveillance that continued for nearly seven years.

Despite the lackluster results, the media viewed "Camelot" as a political paradise lost, but there was still another chance for utopia.

Democrats placed their hopes in the youngest brother, Edward Moore Kennedy who lived up to the Kennedy legacy by literally getting away with murder. Late one night after a party "Teddy" drove a car into a lake at Chappaquiddick and left his female passenger, political assistant Mary Jo Kopechne, behind to drown. cont...

The Strategy Room

2008-12-24T01:50:17-05:00

The Strategy Room is a Foxnews webcast program that is starting to really take off. Instead of the constant commercial breaks the Fox News Network has to deal with, the Strategy Room usually shows one commercial when you sign on and let's you watch the content uninterrupted.

This is a new format that Fox picked up during the presidential elections, but it became so popular that the producers-that-be decided to keep the Strategy Room beyond November 4th, and now the digital show that could has taken on a life of its own. The producers have wisely decided to divide the programming into specific shows with a variety of topics: entertainment, crime, politics and the whole fleet of Fox personalities. I started off as a floating guest and have been on at all hours and I have to admit, it's impressive how much the programs have progressed. Now, I am officially a frequent guest.

All of the Fox hosts have begun to leave their mark on their individual time slots, both the quality, and the traffic of the program have improved dramatically. I'm on three to five days a week....stay tuned.

Thanks for all the e-mails and feedback, I haven't been able to answer everyone but you should know that I do read what you send and I appreciate the feedback.