JULY 13, 2010 U.S. Rebuilds Power Plant, Taliban Reap a Windfall By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mark Steyn June 26, 2010 7:01 A.M. The Unengaged President Obama’s lack of interest in the world is evident in his handling of the oil spill and the Afghan War. What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters.
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JULY 8, 2010 Israel: A Normal Country Hostility to the Jews has been a stain on the Western world’s honor for centuries. The following statement has been signed by Jose Maria Aznar, David Trimble, John R. Bolton, Alejandro Toledo, Marcello Pera, Andrew Roberts, Fiamma Nirenstein, George Weigel, Robert F. Agostinelli and Carlos Bustelo: Israel is
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WASHINGTON TIMES GABRIEL: Master puppeteers World misses new report on mullahs’ nuclear capability By Brigitte Gabriel Friday, June 18, 2010 Illustration: Free Gaza by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times While world media and political attention is focused on the Israel-“Freedom Flotilla” incident, Iranian mullahs in Tehran are celebrating their brilliant war strategy in advancing
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JUNE 25, 2010 Petraeus’s Opportunity His selection reassures our Afghan allies that the U.S. will not begin substantial troop reductions until the Afghans can handle the insurgents on their own. By MARK MOYAR The firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal has ended the career of an outstanding military leader and the only American to forge a
JUNE 28, 2010 Petraeus and Obama’s Uncertain Trumpet There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Turkey of a Policy Obama makes the Middle East an even more dangerous place. BY Elliott Abrams June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 The Gaza flotilla incident is not over. American demands for some “international role” in investigating Israel’s conduct (but not, it seems, Turkey’s) and for
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Period of Consequences Our dangerous Iran policy. BY Jamie Fly and William Kristol June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 The passage last Wednesday of a fourth U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was the latest act in the tragicomedy that is U.S. policy toward Iran.
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JUNE 22, 2010 Iran’s Democratic Manifesto The opposition leader has issued a clear call for democracy, the separation of mosque and state, and a gentler foreign policy. By ABBAS MILANI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Iran’s Green movement, Mr. Mousavi says, respects international standards of human rights and believes in full equality before the law, “irrespective
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This is a letter to the editor in response to Mr. Rubin’s article on Obama’s Foreign Policy Success. LETTERS JUNE 16, 2010 We Can’t Afford Too Many More Successes Like These Regarding James Rubin’s “Obama’s Foreign Policy Success” (op-ed, June 14): What world does Mr. Rubin live in? He says, the Obama administration “has restored
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