SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 An Ally Remembers Defining ‘New Labour,’ defending the Iraq war, getting to know George W. Bush. By MARTIN RUBIN It is now painfully obvious that Tony Blair—the man who led Britain for a decade, who transformed the country’s dully orthodox Labour Party into dashing, moderate “New Labour,” who faced down parliamentary opponents […]
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 If Saddam Had Stayed Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea. By DANIEL HENNINGER From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama’s prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war’s end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois.
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AUGUST 31, 2010 The Surge and Afghanistan Unless he understands the reason for success in Iraq, the president is unlikely to lead a successful strategy against the Taliban. By JOHN MCCAIN Today President Obama will deliver a major speech to mark the draw down of U.S. forces in Iraq to 50,000 troops. He will likely
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AUGUST 23, 2010 The Guns of August, 1990 The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around. By FOUAD AJAMI He struck in early August, 20 years ago, at a time when the Cold War had just ended, and the world was
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AUGUST 20, 2010 Winning the Peace in Iraq The last American combat troops left Iraq this week. But when ‘Operation New Dawn’ begins on Sept. 1, the U.S. will still have a vital mission—and interests—there. By MAX BOOT The Stryker armored vehicles of the U.S. Army’s Fourth Brigade, Second Infantry Division have just rumbled out
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Aggression Outlawed! Magical thinking at the International Criminal Court. BY Jeremy Rabkin August 23, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 46 Last November, as a new round of bombings in Baghdad raised doubts about Iraqi security measures, the New York Times reported that hundreds of Iraqi checkpoints were relying on a
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This article and video from the Huffington Post gives us a perspective on how the Far Left feels about Obama’s performance as president versus as a senator. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/obama-vs-obama-on-afghani_n_676836.html
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse? The Baghdad government runs a top-down command economy and only pays lip service to private jobs and economic diversification. By JUDITH MILLER Baghdad Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted,
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The Weekly Standard The Way of the Kurds One part of Iraq is working better than the other. BY Max Boot May 24, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 34 Erbil, Iraq Iraq has improved immeasurably since the dark days of 2006 when hundreds were being killed every day by al Qaeda bombs and Sadrist death squads
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By Bing West Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice now facing America During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had
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