April 9, 2010 By FOUAD AJAMI President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan increasingly has to it the mark of a military campaign disconnected from a bigger political strategy. Yes, it is true, he “inherited” this war. But in his fashion he embraced it and held it up as a rebuke to the Iraq war. […]
Afghanistan and the Decline of American Power Read More »
Wall Street Journal APRIL 9, 2010 Time to Confront the Tehran-Caracas Axis By ROGER NORIEGA As Washington policy makers scramble to craft effective sanctions against Iran, they seem to have completely ignored Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blossoming relationship with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. This strategic alliance provides the Iranian regime with a clandestine source of uranium, helps it
Are We Closely Watching Chavez? Read More »
APRIL 10, 2010 By ANN MARLOWE Kabul ‘Americans should know that in the people of Afghanistan, you have a partner. Not all of our people will be as disgraceful as some of your beneficiaries.” Abdullah Abdullah is referring to an April 2 speech by President Hamid Karzai that shook up even the normally complacent Obama
Afghanistan – The Man Who Might Have Been ‘King’ Read More »
APRIL 19, 2010 Gates Sought New Ways to Curb Tehran’s Nuclear Program By PETER SPIEGEL As the White House’s campaign to impose international sanctions against Iran extends months beyond deadlines, some U.S. officials are pushing for other options to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. In one of the clearest signs of the growing concern among top
Backup Plans for Iran Read More »
REVIEW & OUTLOOK APRIL 7, 2010 The Karzai Fiasco Echoes of Vietnam in a spat that only helps the Taliban. President Obama isn’t faring too well at converting enemies to friends, but he does seem to have a talent for turning friends into enemies. The latest spectacle is the all-too-public and counterproductive war of words
WSJ – The Karzai Fiasco Read More »
Obama warns Iran must be stopped By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF 06/04/2010 Tells ‘NY Times’ “current course” would give Teheran nuclear capabilities. US President Barack Obama warned Monday that as things stand at the moment, Iran would attain nuclear weapons capabilities. “We know that they have pursued nuclear weapons in the past, and that
Jerusalem Post – Obama and Iran Read More »
Hello all- Another month has come and gone…thankfully. I sit here on Easter morning thinking about how busy of a month it was that we just completed. We had several air assault operations, village clearance missions, detainee operations, and project constructions. All in all Black Knight Troop, 3rd Platoon had a
A Soldier’s Letter From Afghanistan Read More »
Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran”. Columnist Burt Prelutsky. Thanks to Carlyn Pollack for sharing these “words of wisdom” with us.
Bowing to Tehran By Ben Stein on 4.5.10 @ 6:09AM There are words for national leaders who attempt to appease their enemies while at the same time shaming and humiliating their friends. One of the kindest of the words is “naive.” This comes to mind because of President Obama’s recent overtures to the terrorist state
APRIL 5, 2010 Unserious About Iran Obama is acting as if he believes a nuclear Tehran is inevitable. ‘Our aim is not incremental sanctions, but sanctions that will bite.” Thus did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seek to reassure the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee two weeks ago about the Obama Administration’s
“After Iran Gets the Bomb” Read More »
