The long-awaited White House Review on Afghanistan demonstrates that General Petraeus’ counterinsurgency strategy is beginning to pay dividends. The additional U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan have helped the U.S. and coalition forces begin to uproot the Taliban from some of their traditional strongholds in southern Afghanistan. The most important task now is to gain greater […]
It’s time to ‘man up’ and face a fact that most politicians know, but few care to admit. Posted by LaborUnionReport With the exception of, perhaps, Texas governor Rick Perry, no public official wants to publicly admit an obvious fact: The United States of America will likely be forced to invade Mexico. It’s not a matter […]
PAUL L. WILLIAMS, PH.D Pakistan has been spending billions in aid from US taxpayers to build nuclear weapons that are expected to fall into the hands of the Taliban. That’s the most of the latest revelations from Wikileaks. From 2002 to 2010, Pakistan has received $18 billion in military and economic aid from Uncle Sam. […]
President Barack Obama’s Debt Commission includes $100 billion in defense cuts a year by 2015. That represents over one-seventh of the defense budget. Since the military is already straining to meet all its missions now, these cuts would simply force the military to stop doing certain things. This is not just Heritage saying this. The […]
The U.S. defense budget is currently inadequate to meet the nation’s security needs. Yet, a panel led by retired U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, the former Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Alice Rivlin, budget director under President Clinton, has proposed to reduce the federal debt by making drastic cuts to the Pentagon’s budget. […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu In a sign of another failure of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of ”engagement,” a top US official said Syria can forget Israel’s surrendering the strategic Golan Heights while it damages American interests in Lebanon. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told the Washington […]
A judge barred the star prosecution witness from testifying in the first civilian trial of an ex-Guantanamo inmate, in a blow to US President Barack Obama’s plans to bring terror suspects to justice. The dramatic decision by Judge Lewis Kaplan forced a week’s delay in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is accused of […]
A Sunday Times investigation says that Irananian companies in Kabul are being used funnel money to Taliban militants. The Sunday Times report requires a subscription, but Fox News outlines the strategy this way: The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans involved in reconstruction. The money often comes in the form […]
Your Taxpayer Dollars At Work Posted by Dan McLaughlin Tuesday, August 10th at 8:41PM EDT The debate over the “Ground Zero Mosque” presents two separate questions: (1) Whether the mosque is wrong and should be stopped. (2) Whether some arm of the government should be the ones to stop it. Tellingly, liberal defenders of the […]
More blue on blue violence Posted by Dan Spencer Huffington Post Video Editor Ben Craw has put together a devastating video of President Obama debating Senator Obama about Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy. Craw accomplished this fete using clips of Senator Obama questioning Rice about Iraq in January 2007 with comments President Obama has made about […]
