National Security

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Uncharacteristic silence of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez raising questions Hugo Chávez speaks to Fidel Castro in Cuba (AFP) Speculation is rampant that Hugo Chávez is much more seriously ill than admitted, and that there’s a

Grand Ayatollah to US troops: Here’s your turban, what’s your hurry? — One of the strangest (unique?) national spectacles ever is that of the US apparently begging Iraq ro allow US troops to remain in Iraq after the 2011 deadline

In November 1963, after President JFK’s life ended tragically in Dallas, Texas, his V.P., Lyndon Baines Johnson, became president. The Vietnam War was already under way, although it was still referred to as a conflict, for JFK had been sending

Amidst the bilious anti-Zionism and the mindless Obama-worship coursing through the veins of big time legacy media, this piece by Jackson Diehl, Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the liberal Washington Post, comes as both a surprise and a relief. No

From Reuters: Lebanon’s Hezbollah is preparing for a possible war with Israel to relieve perceived Western pressure to topple Syrian PresidentBashar Assad, its guardian ally, sources close to the movement say. The radical Shi’ite group is watching the unrest in

For a group which claims to stand against terrorism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) made an odd choice for the new chief of its Tampa chapter. Hassan Shibly has a track record of defending terrorist groups and acting as

On Thursday June 23rd celebrities from Hollywood, radio, and TV will gather at the Nixon Library for a one of a kind event with a special purpose: to support our troops on the front lines in the war on terror

“As I understand it…. The Chinese have actually had their own armed personnel on the ground for some time in areas where these pipelines and oil drilling facilities have been, because they are the largest customer for this oil.” –

Sadly Obama has made my warning in this video (one deserved f-bomb at the end) from just after his inauguration come true . He had no intention of fighting to victory in Afghanistan, only covering his political ass. He needs

Prime minister George Papandreou won a vote of confidence by a vote of 155 to 143 in Greece’s Parliament early Wednesday morning, after giving a passionate speech about the need to learn the lessons of previous wars and about the

Operation Fast and Furious was supposed to catch gun smugglers trying to ship weapons into Mexico, guess someone forgot to tell the agents they weren’t suppose to actually let the weapons get into Mexico. A vast amount of US weapons

Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad offered a conciliatory tone in his speech at a Damascus University on Monday. He acknowledged the protesters had legitimate grievances and even referred to them as patriots at one point. Al-Assad also scaled back his remarks

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded the warning bells. In Gates’ words, “I’ve spent my entire adult

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Obama to announce Afghanistan troop withdrawal, as war support falls Sharp rise in number backing U.S. Troop Pullout (Pew) On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama will announce the withdrawal of some of the 100,000

In the past ten years, we have lost the lives of many of our best and brightest fighting this war. Families have been torn apart, children no longer have the opportunity to grow up with a mommy or daddy, and

Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas are supposed to have reconciled for the first time since they were at war in 2008, But the reconciliation has been fraught with problems. And now, the participants have canceled a high profile meeting scheduled

The drawdown of US troops is grabbing all the headlines. It was the contentious debate that defined President Obama’s foreign policy during his early presidency. He announced his surge during a speech at West Point much to the aggravation of

Republicans appear increasingly tempted to “cut and run” in Libya and elsewhere. This is not a sentiment confined to the Ron Paul isolationist wing of the party. Nor is it a Tea Party phenomenon, despite support from Michele Bachmann and

From Ynet news: WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama spoke Monday at a fundraiser for potential Jewish donors to his 2010 presidential campaign and assured then that Jerusalem and Washington’s relations were unshakable. “One inviolable principle will be that the

“DADT: Why I Question Repealing Morality,” Part I (“Why I’m Questioning”) is online at Big Peace. I had intended the writing of Part II to be a rather short endeavor, but the more I wrote the more I realized how

Photo by Paul Avallone — The debate over Afghanistan — which this week comes down to how many troops Barack Obama will announce he is withdrawing from that wretched country beginning in July through 2012 — is being conducted with

NOTE: In addition to the alarming results of the survey, Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques– where 81% of mosques in this country contained texts that advocate violent jihad- the survey presents a standard that can give law enforcement a

What is actually being done about U.S. energy security? Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Illinois Congressman John Shimkus, chairman of the Environment and Economy Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives lays out

Churchill understood the jihad depredations of Sudan’s Arab Muslims There is a refreshingly honest–and alarming–piece by Alan Boswell writing for Time on the accumulating evidence that yet another jihad genocide may be under way in The Sudan–Arab Muslim mass murderers

What should we take away from the following story? Once upon a time, the man who was given charge of all the secrets of the nation was then given charge of all of its soldiers and weapons. And none of