Peter Schweizer

Our men were courageous and our leaders strong. Here is General Eisenhower’s speech on D-Day for the landing at Normandy. [youtube WEyCjN9riiY nolink]

In the wake of the successful mission to kill Osama Bin Laden relations with Pakistan are strained. The U.S. is expecting that Pakistan is going to sharply reduce the number of U.S. military trainers allowed in their country. Intelligence sharing

This is Memorial Day and so I don’t want to nitpick, but how could the President possibly clear a speech for this day that reads: “It’s one of my highest honors. It is my most solemn responsibility as president to

An Australian organization called the Institute for Economics and Peace has released its annual “Global Peace Index.” And it doesn’t fare so well for the United States. Iceland is the “most peaceful” (okay, maybe) country and Somalia is the “least

That’s the accusation being leveled against the Iranian President by radicals in Iran. In the twisted world of radical Iranian politics, some are now claiming that Ahmadinejad is a moderate, who secretly wants to be allies with Israel. The charge

The level of corruption in Mexico continues to amaze me. No, I didn’t say “surprise me.” Nothing seems to be surprising anymore as our neighbor to the south continues to fight an orgy of violence, corruption, and economic deprivation, all

Tehran Times is reporting that Gaddafi “personally shot and killed Major General Abubaker Jaber Younes because he had complained about the attacks on the Libyan people by the country’s military and hired mercenaries.” This report cannot be confirmed.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Istanbul for a conference put together by the United Nations called “the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.” No, it’s not a discussion on how to grow the economies of the

The United Nations has an independent investigator on extrajudicial killings and he wants the United States to reveal the details of the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden. The reason? Christof Heyns wants to determine if the raid conformed to

Germany’s reliably left of center Der Spiegel offers up an interview with German political scientist Herfried Munkler who criticizes America’s celebration that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Munkler joins the chorus of criticism from the German Left direct at

So get this: Ismail Kosari, who is a member of the Iranian parliament’s Security and Foreign Policy Commission and a close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says we have it all wrong. Bin Laden was not a Islamic extremist.

Rashard Mendenhall of the Pittsburgh Steelers displayed extreme moral confusion when he tweeted: ‘We’ll never know what really happened. ‘I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.’ ‘What kind of person celebrates

Associated Press: CAIRO — A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social media addict would do: He began sending messages on Twitter. With

Daniel Breimert, well-armed chaplain Swedish soldiers are deployed in Afghanistan and one Swedish chaplain got in a bit of trouble recently when he wrote a newspaper column describing how he manned the machine gun on an armored personnel carrier. Daniel

Former President Jimmy Carter was just in Pyongyang, North Korea and blames the United States largely for the situation in the country. The United States and South Korea have chosen “to deliberately withhold food aid to the North Korean people

Former President George W. Bush and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong recently went on a bike ride with wounded vets as part of the Wounded Warriors Project. The 15 vets rode 62.5 miles with Bush and were joined on

I don’t ever recall mentioning an article in The New Yorker as a must read. But this one is. It’s a devastating look at how Obama thinks (or doesn’t think) about foreign affairs. Writer Ryan Lizza tracks the chaotic course

The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets are reporting that Pakistan, which receives billions of dollars in US aid every year, is encouraging another billion dollar aid recipient (Afghanistan) to weaken their ties with us and cozy up to

Hamza: So where is my government check? Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza are who radical Islamist preachers who live in London who are believed to have recruited dozens of extremists to Pakistan and Afghanistan through their mosques. That’s the word

One of the doctors who was at Stalin’s deathbed recounts in a just-discovered diary his opinion that the Soviet dictator was mentally ill. He wrote :”I would suggest that the cruelty and suspicion of Stalin, his fear of enemies… was

South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo has a disturbing report about the activities of Kim Jung Il. Apparently he has been spending time at “Building 3” which houses the military commands that plan war on the south. This comes on top of

Syrian forces fire on people attending a funeral: [youtube tPCDPKirZBM nolink] Major military operation under way in Daraa: [youtube OJ8IWos7GsQ nolink] Syrian anti-government protesters under attack: [youtube OjWJB8Pv2OU nolink] Syrian tanks and soldiers fire on protesters in Daraa: [youtube pUol-27v3Mw

On Palm Sunday Girls March Through the New Gate in Jerusalem. [youtube cji5ExI8wuw nolink] On Good Friday in the Philippines, Christians reenact the Crucifixion with real nails. [youtube x_yN3BYHV_s nolink] Orthodox Easter in Sarajevo. [youtube 6yG-etMaAp8 nolink] Orthodox Easter in

Protests are spreading in Syria, where today 15 people have been killed so far as security forces fire live bullets and tear gas at tens of thousands of protesters. Among the dead is an 11 year old child.. Syria, in

I absolutely hate Vietnam analogies. It gets trotted out every time the United States goes into military action. They said it in the 1980s about Lebanon, Grenada, and Nicaragua. In the 1990s they said the same about Iraq/Kuwait, Bosnia and