War on Terror
Some fruits of the surge: The sewage-filled streets of Doura, a Sunni Arab enclave in south Baghdad, provide an ugly setting for what US commanders say is al-Qaeda’s last stronghold in the city. The secretive group, however, appears to be losing its grip as a “surge” of US troops in the neighbourhood — part of…
Mark Steyn’s comments on the Iran hostage non-crisis are, as always, worth reading: How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran? No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now. What? You haven’t heard about them? Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For example, for two months…
Having a respectful and patriotic opposition can be valuable during wartime as much as during peacetime, helping to ensure that ineffective policies are changed and that excesses are not allowed. Still, the constant signals of a willingness to abandon Iraq prematurely — which factions in the United States have been sending around the world for…
On NBC10, Rocco provides some personal perspective on the good news that nobody’s apparently been hearing. For example: I spent some time in the Green Zone, and when I first got there, three or four times a day, my office would shake, the windows would rattle, and we’d look up at the black clouds from…
I think the significance of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s latest attempt at high-visibility appeasement in the War on Terror is best summed up by a Dr. Seuss cartoon from 1942. Just replace the word “Nazi” with the word “Islamofascist”… (Image from the University of California at San Diego’s Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr.…
I’m thrilled to report that Rocco DiPippo is back on American soil. It would seem that his time in Iraq has done much to mellow his writing: There is no longer any doubt about it–the Democratic Party is rushing to cause the defeat of the US in Iraq. And why not? Without the complete failure…
I’m not a dead-ender on Iraq, but I do think we’ve got to give the new–albeit too-long in coming–strategy time to work. I suspect readers will just breeze on past this post as many, probably most, already have their minds made up. To them, we are frozen in time: the situation in Iraq will always…
In response to the horrific story reported in the Pure Evil post, Victor Davis Hanson writes: …But what is strange about reading Michael Yon’s graphic descriptions from Iraq is that al Qaeda (or its kindred) seems almost in a single generation to be outdoing a millennium of savagery present in Greek history and myth. You…
Sometimes you read a story which shakes you to your core. Michael Ledeen’s Why Do The Iraqis Hate the Terrorists? did it for me: The horror of the terrorist onslaught rarely is brought home to the American public. Indeed, it is sometimes so grisly that not even American troops in the field can even talk…
Bob Owens of the Confederate Yankee blog would like to know what journalistic reasoning led the Associated Press to publish an unconfirmed report of sectarian violence in Iraq that turned out to be a hoax, while at the same time ignoring a strongly sourced story concerning an actual, verifiable Al-Qaida attack on an Iraqi village…On…