FEBRUARY 8, 2011 In an interview, the former secretary of defense explains how Washington feuds harmed Iraq policy, and why the surge was less vital than you think. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in . . . and I’d think, ‘My goodness, that’s not my perspective,’”
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NEWS & OBSERVER Power grid a top terror target, officials say WASHINGTON A major cyberattack somewhere in the U.S. is becoming increasingly possible, top government intelligence officials said Thursday, warning that an assault on America’s power-grid system “represents the battleground for the future.” The officials, speaking at a special hearing on Capitol Hill, also said that
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John Guandolo on the Muslim Brotherhood Posted By Brian Ward On February 7, 2011 @ In US NEWS | No Comments By Dr. Richard Swier My good friend John Guandolo, Director, Strategic Planning for the Strategic Engagement Group [1] did an excellent interview on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Please take the time to listen
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February 04, 2011By James Simpson If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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February 8, 2011 Undermining Allies By Thomas Sowell While everyone’s attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration’s foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign
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Nile Gardiner Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. The greatest president of the 20th Century: the free world owes Ronald Reagan a huge debt of gratitude By Nile Gardiner World
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Farewell to Arms Max Boot January 17, 2011 In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, there were 710,821 active-duty soldiers in the U.S. Army. By 2001, that figure was down to 478,918. That 32 percent decline in active-duty strength severely limited our options for a military
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FEBRUARY 6, 2011, 5:31 P.M. ET Notable & Quotable British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. [T]he biggest threat that we face comes from terrorist attacks, some of which are, sadly, carried out by our own
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