IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson March 17, 2011 12:00 A.M. President Hamlet Thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them. More than 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a riveting tragedy about a young, charismatic Danish prince who vowed to do the right thing in
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WASHINGTON TIMES Sol Sanders Archive Tuesday, February 1, 2011 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING World gone mad: Where’s Uncle Sam just when he’s needed the most? Picture a barred door. On one side is Uncle Sam holding it with bracing shoulder. On the other side are smaller figures pushing, but not too hard, and looking back over
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NEW YORK TIMES February 10, 2011 By ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL, Afghanistan — After her parents threw her out of the house for refusing to marry a 52-year-old widower with five children, Sabra, 18, boarded a bus that dropped her, afraid and confused, in downtown Kabul. She slept in a mosque for days, barely eating,
NEW AFGHAN PROPOSAL WOULD CLAMP DOWN ON WOMEN’S SHELTERS Read More »
WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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U.S.: Little to show in 8 years By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times December 5, 2010 The State Department has stated in a cable from Peshawar, Pakistan, that it is skeptical about eventually winning the military struggle in Pakistan‘s badlands, saying peace talks go nowhere and murderous militants control key towns. A long cable from
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NEWS & OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.C. CIA recalls exposed spy ISLAMABAD The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustful allies locked in a
CIA RECALLS EXPOSED OPERATIVE OUT OF PAKISTAN Read More »
My diplomatic wingman The late Richard Holbrooke (left) and Gen. David H. Petraeus (right), shown here with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in April, collaborated closely on U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke passed away Monday in Washington. (Shah Marai) By David H. Petraeus Washington Post December 19, 2010 Those of us engaged in the
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