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OBAMA IS OUTCLASSED AND OUTSMARTED BY RETIRING GENERAL PETRAEUS

EDITORIAL: An old soldier who won’t fade away THE WASHINGTON TIMES– Thursday, September 1, 2011 Gen. David H. Petraeus closed his phenomenal 37-year Army career this week with a joint review at Fort Myer in Arlington. Service members from every branch were present, and flags of all 50 states fluttered in the breeze. A substantial […]

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BOOK REVEIW: IN MY TIME

AUGUST 30, 2011 Dick Cheney’s Wars: The Former Vice President on 9/11, Iraq and the Future Following are excerpts from former Vice President Dick Cheney’s new memoir, “In My Time,” published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. In the first excerpt, Mr. Cheney describes his advice to President George W. Bush

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KRAUTHAMMER – OBAMA, BAD LUCK? BAD FAITH?

Bad Luck? Bad Faith? by Charles Krauthammer (more by this author) Posted 08/19/2011 ET “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.” — President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did

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THE AFGHAN MISSION AND THE SEAL TRAGEDY

AUGUST 9, 2011 The best way to honor our special forces is not to make them win wars on their own. By MAX BOOT I recently visited a Special Operations headquarters in the Middle East—the location, along with other details, must remain classified. I received an incredibly impressive briefing on how U.S. commandos generate intelligence,

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THE OBAMA DOWNGRADE, ALPHABETICALLY

AUGUST 2, 2011 H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president. By BRET STEPHENS Snapshots from President Obama’s efforts to improve America’s standing in the world, 923 days into his administration: A is for the Arab world, and our standing in it: This year, Zogby International found that 5% of Egyptians had

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PATRIOTIC WEBSITE DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DEFENDED OUR FREEDOMS

Below is a website that was passed along to me to share with those who feel strongly about the people who serve. Because of our strong feelings of gratitude toward those who have, who do, and who will defend our freedoms, we have dedicated this page to all who sacrifice their personal security and conveniences

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THE COMING AFGHAN DEBACLE

JUNE 28, 2011 The Taliban is jubilant at Obama’s strategy. So is Iran. By BRET STEPHENS What does it mean that the U.S. will now be withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan on an accelerated and defined timetable in order to focus, as President Obama said last week, on “nation building here at home”? It emboldens

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HUNTSMAN – A ‘CONSERVATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVER’

JUNE 25, 2011 The latest GOP presidential candidate talks about cutting defense to better compete with Asia. By DANIEL HENNINGER No Republican presidential candidate stirs more curiosity than Jon Huntsman. “What about Huntsman?” You hear it all the time. Who is Jon Huntsman and where is he coming from? On the morning after he announced

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BOLTON – MANAGING PAKISTAN AFTER BIN LADEN

MAY 11, 2011 Removing troops from Afghanistan will be seen in Islamabad as weakness. By JOHN BOLTON Duplicity has been a hallmark of Pakistan’s approach to the U.S. for years. Beginning in the 1970s, Islamabad denied it was pursuing nuclear weapons, even as Washington repeatedly confronted it with concrete evidence. Presidents and Congresses fulminated, but

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