War on Terror
According to Newsweek: In September 2006, during a famous encounter with Fox News anchor Wallace, Clinton erupted in anger and waived his finger when asked about whether his administration had done enough to get bin Laden. “What did I do? What did I do?” Clinton said at one point. “I worked hard to try to…
Duncan Currie writes in The Libel Tourist Strikes Again: How to Kill a Book You Don’t Like: In late July, Cambridge University Press announced it was destroying all its remaining copies of Alms for Jihad, a 2006 book exploring the nexus of Islamic charities and Islamic radicalism. At the same time, Cambridge asked libraries around…
An NSA agent listens into a cell phone call between parties in Great Britain and Iran. This is what he hears…All materials and personnel are in place. We await further orders.Immediately, the party in Great Britain receives a return call…Begin operations in 2 hours. All primary targets are to be destroyed.Now, the NSA monitor detects…
Rocco DiPippo was the guest on this weekend’s 10 News Conference on WJAR-TV (NBC 10). Rocco offered his observations about conditions in Iraq and his criticisms of the media’s coverage of both the surge and the rebuilding operation. The entire program is available here. Rocco is also making some of the firsthand videos he took…
According to ABC news, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama will announce today that he is prepared to invade Pakistan, a nominal U.S. ally, to advance the War on Terror…In a strikingly bold speech about terrorism scheduled for this morning, Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will call not only for a withdrawal of U.S.…
Both Andrew and Mac have pointed to the NY Times piece by Brookings Institute’s Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack that claims progress is being made in Iraq. As Mac stated, it is important because of who is saying that things are looking up: “two severe critics of the Bush administration’s management of the war.” Afraid…
Carroll Andrew Morse has done a nice job of summarizing and analyzing the piece in today’s New York Times by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Insitute. There’s not much that I can add. But NRO has asked me to contribute to a symposium on the piece that will appear tomorrow. Here’s what…
Brookings Institution scholars Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack have published a “read the whole thing” quality op-ed in today’s New York Times on the situation in Iraq. Pollack co-authored a Brookings institute paper titled “Waning Chances for Stability in Iraq” as recently as February, so this author combo cannot be considered cheerleaders for either the…
Contra the dogged rhetoric of the president’s domestic nemeses, the Big Lie of the war in Iraq has been the insistent obliviousness to the arguments on which the war was founded. The case for the war consisted of three mutually supportive notions, and all have largely been borne out — with the complications attendant to…
Jim Haldeman forwards a recent e-mail from Colonel John Charlton, commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division, describing the current situation in Ramadi, Iraq… Colonel John Charlton: Security here in Ramadi continues to improve as the Iraqi police and army forces work daily to keep the population safe. When we…