Peace Process or War Process?

by Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009 When Barack Obama announced in June 2009 about Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, “I’m confident that if we stick with it, having started early, that we can make some serious progress this year,” he displayed a touching, if naïve optimism. Indeed, his determination fits a well-established pattern of determination by […]

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The Disingenuousness of Leftist Claims About the Olympics

Posted by Erick Erickson The Democrats are in full push back against conservatives who cheered Barack Obama’s defeat at the hands of the International Olympic Committee. During the Bush era, Republicans from Karl Rove to Joe Wilson questioned — in ways both veiled and overt — the patriotism of Democrats who challenged the administration’s Iraq […]

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Obama Moves to Muzzle Top Military Commanders

By: David A. Patten Sources tell Newsmax the Obama administration is muzzling its top military leaders, and keeping them from publicly airing their views on how to fight the war in Afghanistan. The administration’s primary target: top Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose speech in London last week apparently caught administration officials off guard. In fact, […]

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IAEA DOCUMENT SAYS IRAN HAS DATA TO BUILD A NUKE

Top experts at the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported. The report, titled “Possible Military Dimensions of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” says Iran has conducted extensive research and testing on […]

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