Iran Training Assassination Teams
A certain news agency has received a deliberate leak from a US military intelligence official, apparently intended to deter Iran from pursuing its nefarious plans by making a public announcement that...
View ArticleNY Post’s “Obama Tried Stalling US Troops’ Iraq Withdrawal” Story Confirmed
Original NY Post story. Washington Prowler: The Obama campaign spent more than five hours on Monday attempting to figure out the best refutation of the explosive New York Post report that quoted Iraqi...
View ArticleFamily Told Obama Not to Wear Son’s Bracelet
Newsbusters: Barack Obama played the “me too” game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a...
View ArticleNuclear Proliferation and the Left
James Lewis, at American Thinker, explains how the domestic and international left are responsible for Iran and North Korea becoming nuclear powers. The single most suicidal action by the Left has...
View ArticleObama’s Fatal Dilemma
It’s sad that we had to lose this year, but conservatives and Republicans can console themselves with Barack Obama’s unhappy prospects based upon the irreconcilable dilemma facing his presidency. If...
View ArticleCaptured al Qaeda Letter Praises Iran’s Support of Terror
Let’s see, Bush’s war policy was wrong, because sophisticated people knew that al Qaeda is a Sunni organization, and neither secular Ba’athists, like Saddam Hussein, nor Shiites, like the mullahs...
View ArticleThe Left’s Foreign Policy Ambush
Richard Perle evaluates the Bush record in foreign policy (to the limited degree that Bush was allowed by the federal bureaucracy to have a say in the matter) and attacks the left’s false narrative of...
View ArticleUnderstanding How We Won in Iraq
Shiite Iraqi policemen (and their officers) receive a solid dose of the effective kind of motivational instruction that Western soldiers have been receiving from non-commissioned officers since back...
View ArticleAmbushed on the Potomac
George W. Bush confronting the bureaucracies In the National Interest, Richard Perle describes the fatal disconnect between George W. Bush’s professed policies and the entrenched State Department and...
View ArticleRevolutionary Guards Captured in Iraq Released
“Please, oh, please, don’t build nuclear weapons and sponsor terrorist attacks against us. You can have the guys who were killing US troops with IEDs back. See? we are kneeling and grovelling.” New...
View Article“Proportionality in Modern Asymmetrical Wars”
I would give the following paper by Amichai Cohen, International Law professor at Ono Academic College, Israel, a gentlemanly C. Excerpt Armed conflicts of this type have sometimes been termed...
View ArticleLaurie Mylroie and Neocon Conspiracy Theory
Edward Jay Epstein, in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, explains that the Anthrax spores used in postal attacks around the time of 9/11 had been weaponized by a coating of silicon greatly enhancing...
View ArticleFreedom Reduced to “New Dawn”
An exhausted US soldier David Bellavia, author of a combat memoir of the battle of Fallujah for which his platoon received a Presidential Unit Citation, House to House, served as a Staff Sergeant in...
View Article“Collateral Murder” Video Leaker Arrested
SPC Bradley Manning Back in April, Wikileaks released a video of a US Apache helicopter firing on a group of armed Iraqis in southeastern Baghdad on July 12, 2007. The video appeared in a shorter and...
View ArticleA Different Perspective
Marine resting in Iraq Veteran Marine officer Peter Somerville (who served in the Middle East) offers some perspective on the recent weather. Yesterday’s High Temps: Washington, DC: 102 degrees 29...
View ArticleWikileaks Temporarily Pauses Flow of Leaked Documents
Newsweek Declassified explains that the Times of London story (behind subscription firewall) rocked the Wikileaks team of activists back on their heels. They expect major prizes for investigative...
View Article“Spending $572B inTwo Years Stimulates an Economy, But Spending $554B Over...
On the occasion of the notional end of the War in Iraq, Randall Hoven examines the popular liberal talking point that it was the Bush deficits incurred because of the Iraq War that wrecked the...
View ArticleReviewing Obama’s End of Combat Mission in Iraq Speech
Peter Robinson listened (which I did not), and found it incoherent, grudging, and disgraceful. Sample: Incoherent: The president argued that the war had represented a worthwhile cause, asserting that...
View ArticleWikileaks Leaks Iraq Material
The usual gang of establishment media collaborated: New York Times The Guardian Spiegel The commentariat of the left is complaining that US forces did not stop the Iraqis from coercively interrogating...
View ArticleWikileaks Leak Offers WMD News
Danger Room: By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But for years afterward,...
View ArticleWhose Side Are We On in Libya?
PJM explains that we are supporting, among others, Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi who fought American troops in Afghanistan and recruited Libyans to fight American troops in Iraq. Shortly after unrest broke...
View ArticleLibya versus Iraq
Hat tip to Richard Fernandez who reflects on history, while contemplating the unhappy spectacle of escalating regime violence in response to protests in Syria: Deraa, the site of one of the many...
View ArticleComparing Libya & Iraq
detail At Red State, Jeff Emmanuel has a large graphic illustrating a number of informative comparisons between President Bush’s unilateral, war-of-choice in Iraq and President Obama’s kinectic action...
View ArticleCondoleezza Rice Stands up to Lawrence O’Donnell’s Attempted Bullying
Condi Rice did a good job of standing up to him, and it is very interesting to observe how much O’Donnell relies on fundamentally dishonest interviewing techniques. He continually interrupts his role...
View ArticleThis Memorial Day and the War in Iraq
Walter Russell Mead thinks the American intellectual establishment ought to have taken the occasion of this year’s Memorial Day to face the truth and applaud the victory delivered by American...
View ArticleNo Place For the Ladies
U.S. Marines rest in an amphibious assault vehicle. Ryan Smith, who served in Iraq as a Marine, explains some of the issues combat soldiers might have about serving directly beside females. Most...
View ArticleMichael Kelly, 1957-2003
Michael Kelly (1957-2003) Bret Stephens remembers Michael Kelly, the American journalist killed ten years ago south of Baghdad Airport, traveling embedded with the US Army’s Third Division. His jeep...
View ArticleWMDs Again On the Move
The Jerusalem Post is passing along a Lebanese news report with a strange element of déjà vu. Lebanese daily says 20 trucks crossed into Iraq last week, bearing equipment and material used for...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Blizzard of Lies, I
When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had the temerity to criticize the leadership of the chosen one for failing to secure a Status of Forces agreement, i.e. an official grant of permission...
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