PRUDEN: Sacking the general doesn’t change much http://www.washingtontimes.com/ President Obama rids himself of a particularly clueless general, but his fundamental problem remains. The clueless general is Stanley A. McChrystal. His fundamental problem is himself. The president and the general were doomed from the beginning to part ways. The general understood the war and thought he […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/24/dozens-from-us-on-list-of-targets-as-terrorists/ By Eli Lake J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES ZEROING IN: John O. Brennan, White House senior adviser on counterterrorism, says U.S.-born terrorists overseas are being targeted for “military response.” Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president’s most senior adviser […]
The Western way of war By Caroline B. Glick http://www.jpost.com/ Who we are and why we fight. US General Stanley McChrystal has paid a huge price for his decision to give Rolling Stone reporter Micahel Hastings free access to himself and his staff. But he performed a great service for the rest of us. US […]
Fatah’s Decline…Pardon My Dry Tear Ducts “Fatah has now been propped up by the West, especially America, to be the Arab recipient of Israeli one-sided concessions.” http://www.floridajewish.com/blog/2010/06/24/fatahs-declinepardon-my-dry-tear-ducts/ Gerald Honigman on June 24th, 2010 An Associated Press story on January 20th reported on the West’s darling, Fatah’s Mahmoud Abbas, calling off elections in the West Bank […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/obama_administration_planning.html Obama Administration Planning to Circumvent Congress on Amnesty Ann Kane In one of his final moves to fundamentally change how America operates, the Obama Administration appears to be circumventing regular congressional procedures on immigration reform by considering deferred action or parole on a massive scale for the more than ten million illegal aliens in […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/sharia-white-house-makes-sharia-appointment.html Is Obama capable of making any decision, any policy, any appointment that does not advance radically intolerant Islam? For this unfamiliar with the term sharia, it refers to the ‘sacred’ law of Islam. All Muslims believe Sharia is allah’s law. Shariah-Compliant Finance specialist joins White House as Fellow Sharia Finance Blog via Creeping The […]
Click here: COIN, Shmoin. Obama Is The Problem – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/14805-COIN,-Shmoin.-Obama-Is-The-Problem.html COIN, Shmoin. Obama Is The Problem COIN, the abbreviation for counterinsurgency operations, is hotly debated as applied in Afghanistan. Those most blindly in favor on the Left think it a way to be nice and avoid many of the harshnesses of war. Others […]
“It was just a collision between vanity and coarse indiscretion. And with or without McChrystal, with or without his mouthy staff, the COIN nightmare continues. “ http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/06/24/mcchrystals_fate_should_be_a_coin_quip,_not_etched_in_stone/print?showfull=true McChrystal’s Fate Should Be a COIN Quip, Not Etched in Stone So Gen. Stanley McChrystal lost his job. Does it matter? Aside from the fact that with Wednesday’s […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2010/06/25/huffington_post_writer_a_cuban_agent Humberto Fontova Huffington Post Writer a Cuban Agent The Huffington Post’s Cuba-based writer, Margarita Alarcon, informs us that treating Cuba “this small island†as “a threat to U.S. integrity so much that the Department of State puts it on its list of terrorist nations is considered tantamount to political dementia.†In fact, Margarita Alarcon’s […]
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-213950-100-court-ruling-honor-killing-plan-is-freedom-of-thought.html Court ruling: Honor killing plan is ‘freedom of thought’ A Diyarbakır court has dropped the charges against eight people from a family who were planning to kill a girl in the name of honor, ruling that they cannot be sentenced for thoughts that did not turn into action. According to the Sabah daily, the […]