March 18, 2013 The Untold Story of Afghan Progress There are over eight million schoolchildren, 2.6 million of them girls. In 2001: 900,000 boys and practically no girls. By SAAD MOHSENI Mr. Mohseni is the chairman of MOBY Group, Afghanistan’s largest media group with additional holdings in the Middle East and South and Central […]
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March 16, 2013 When Everyone Agreed About Iraq For years before the war, a bipartisan consensus thought Saddam possessed WMD. By STEPHEN F. KNOTT Mr. Knott, a professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College, is the author of “Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and
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March 14, 2013 A Former POW on Vietnam, Four Decades Later I’ve made friendships with former enemies. A regret is that they don’t yet enjoy the freedoms Americans hold dear. By John McCain Forty years ago on March 14, my fellow prisoners of war in North Vietnam and I, dressed in cheap civilian clothes
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MIDDLE EAST NEWS March 11, 2013, 10:30 p.m. ET CIA Ramps Up Role in Iraq As al Qaeda Fighters Cross Over From Syria, Agency Fills Void Left by U.S. Military By ADAM ENTOUS, JULIAN E. BARNES and SIOBHAN GORMAN Associated PressIraqi forces detain alleged members of al Qaeda in Iraq last year. The CIA
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March 11, 2013 Yes, Defense Secretary Is a ‘Policy-Making Position’ Chuck Hagel might think otherwise, but I found that the job demanded involvement in the country’s direction. By MELVIN R. LAIRD Mr. Laird was secretary of defense (1969-73) and counselor to the president for domestic affairs (1973-74). He served nine terms as a Republican
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Chavismo and Us By Mona Charen – March 8, 2013 “One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.” –Dr. Thomas Sowell The Berlin Wall was demolished by joyful Europeans
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Michelle Obama and Kerry to Hold Off Giving Award to Anti-Semitic 9/11 Fan Daniel Halper March 7, 2013 2:59 PM Yesterday, Sam Tadros reported that Michelle Obama and John Kerry were planning to award the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award to Samira Ibrahim, a woman
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House Intel Chair Mike Rogers Calls Chinese Cyber Attacks ‘Unprecedented’ By George Stephanopoulos | ABC OTUS News – 9 hrs ago ABC OTUS News – House Intel Chair Mike Rogers Calls Chinese Cyber Attacks ‘Unprecedented’ (ABC News) House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said it was “beyond a shadow of a doubt” that
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February 22, 2013 America’s Kinder, Gentler Department of Defense Cutting the military to fuel the welfare state doesn’t instill fear in a nation’s enemies. By MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS The Department of Defense faces some stark choices in the future due to the threat of sequestration. But the continual sounds of shoes dropping at the
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WASHINGTON TIMES BELLAMY VAN AAIST, LOPEZ, KAHLILI: Scent of ‘germ’ warfare raises fear in the Mideast Iran, Syria and North Korea step up work on biological weapons By Jill Bellamy van Aalst and Clare Lopez and Reza Kahlili Jill Bellamy van Aalst is a biological warfare threat analyst. Clare Lopez is a senior fellow
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