JUNE 2, 2010 Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan By ANN MARLOWE Gen. Stanley McChrystal has embraced Hamid Karzai as part of the Obama administration’s startling about-face on the Afghan president. Until recently, the Obama team seemed to understand that Mr. Karzai was “not an adequate strategic partner,” in the well-chosen words of our ambassador (and […]
MAY 28, 2010 Confidential Conundrum By JOHN O. MCGINNIS There is an obvious tension between a democratic public’s need for information—its right to know—and the government’s need, at times, for operational secrecy. A broad sense of what officials are doing is at the heart of any democracy, and not only in principle: Collective wisdom in
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The Weekly Standard Sweet Home Iran The al Qaeda refuge no one wants to talk about. BY Thomas Joscelyn May 24, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 34 This past week, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman of the Associated Press reported a story that deserved to make a splash but didn’t. The CIA had a highly-classified program
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Henry Lamb is an expert on US sovereignty and the UN. Obama’s New World Order By Henry Lamb Saturday, May 29, 2010 http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/23721 It should come as no surprise. During the campaign, he told us he was a “citizen of the world.” Last week, he told the cadets at West Point, and the rest of the
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MAY 24, 2010 Iran: From Hostage Crisis to the Bomb? By WARREN KOZAK We measure their rhetoric, we monitor their actions both within their borders and abroad, and we wonder: “Once they get it, would they use it?” But perhaps we are asking the wrong question when it comes to Iran’s race to get the
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Updated: Wed., May. 26, 2010, 1:06 AM Just another act of deadly treason By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 1:06 AM, May 26, 2010 Posted: 11:41 PM, May 25, 2010 Yesterday, The New York Times published another front-page article based on a leaked classified document. This time, it was an order signed by Gen. David Petraeus
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May 21, 2010 The Fruits of Weakness By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON — It is perfectly obvious that Iran’s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent).
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EUROPE NEWS MAY 17, 2010 Iranian Nuclear Deal Raises Fears By JAY SOLOMON, MARGARET COKER And JOHN LYONS Vahid Salemi/Associated PressFrom left to right, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
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MAY 17, 2010 Islam, Obama and the Empty Quarter By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. More recently it is aptly used as a metaphor to refer to the quarter of the Muslim world that is still undemocratic. Other
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MAY 17, 2010 Thai leaders can learn from the examples of Taiwan and Korea. The death toll in Bangkok’s latest round of violence reached 30 yesterday as the Thai army tightened its grip on a besieged band of pro-democracy protesters. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva explained to the nation Saturday that the crackdown was “necessary” and
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