National Security

From the Associated Press: CHICAGO — In 2000, David Coleman Headley called a phone number he saw on a recruiting poster in a mosque in Pakistan, and in doing so launched a nearly decade-long career as a terrorist. For the

Barack Obama’s tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days. To be sure, on his watch, an extraordinary intelligence-special forces team liquidated

Must be something in the water, or maybe it’s something about your kid having to clean up after Obama’s mistakes. JPost, 5/27/2011 Poll: 12% of Israeli Jews consider Obama to be pro-Israel Despite AIPAC speech intended to correct impressions that

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was hoping to avoid his clash with US President Barack Obama this week in Washington. Four days before his showdown at the White House with the American leader, Netanyahu addressed the Knesset. His speech was the

Even though 16 years have passed since the end of the Bosnian war, many Serbs still consider Ratko Mladic to be a war hero who saved Serb lives during the Bosnian war that ended in 1995. Hundreds of protesters clashed

This ceremony took place on May 20th, shortly after President Obama gave his first speech about Israel returning to 1967 borders. [youtube 1YGBp9RQj08 nolink]

Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, and Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s Human Rights program, recently co-authored an article on the Huffington Post attacking legislative efforts to prohibit the

From ABC News March 18: President Obama told a bipartisan group of members of Congress today that he expects the U.S. would be actively involved in any military action against Libya for “days, not weeks,” after which he said the

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

“It looks like we now have a Bush-Obama policy on democracy. I think President Obama would wince a bit being called a Neo-con but it sounds awfully close!” What is the former CIA director’s take on U.S. policy toward the

Like most Americans, I rejoiced on learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. On any number of levels, it’s a good thing that he is dead, and dead “by our hand.” As details of the operation that took his

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pakistan shuts down intelligence sharing liaison centers Pakistanis in Lahore protesting the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden In further moves to end military and intelligence cooperation with the United States, Pakistan has

Thailand’s politics have certainly been colorful, both figuratively and literally. And now the next exotic comedy scene is occurring. As Thailand approaches elections on July 3, the opposition Pheu Thai party is putting up the beautiful Yingluck Shinawatra for prime

The Army honored a fallen hero of the Ft. Hood Jihad Massacre with a medal this week. Not, of course, that the Army describes the November 2009 attack in such meaningful terms. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan may have shouted

Images of Iraq’s “successful transformation” into a society dominated by Shiite fundamentalism and its accompanying hatred of the West, and of course, Jews Veiled women supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march while holding a sign that reads, “no, no to

Imam Majid, President of ISNA & Executive Director of the ADAMS Center – Both Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups Last Friday, May 20th, U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of the First District of Texas indicated the current Administration appears to be complicit

Just brilliant, which seems the norm for this guy. He pulls back the curtain on Obama and reveals what makes the man tick. It should be sent to everyone you know. Let’s keep its lesson in front of us as

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The Racer plague has come to Israel. Last week Obama gave his controversial speech on the Middle East. At the end of it he unveiled his vision for the Israeli-Arab conflict, saying

From day one, Obama has been reticent to admit the greatness of the United States. In fact, it’s arguable that his whole campaign on “hope and change” grew out of his conviction that this country needed changing because it offered

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Bitter fights over Greece’s debt deepen Europe’s financial crisis Some analysts are comparing Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou to the mythical Sisyphus, because every time he does something to try to reduce Greece’s debt,

While the lovers and supporters of Israel both on the right and the left celebrate the diplomatic victory of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu over President Barack Obama, the prospects for Israel in regards to its security and standing in the

Haaretz, the Israeli equivalent of The Workers World, sometimes sees the need to publish someone from the real world. Moshe Arens is a Jewish patriot who has served his country with distinction, and unlike Haaretz, has often been right. Haaretz.com,

“Those were the armistice lines at the end of the war. They weren’t borders. They weren’t internationally recognized boundaries under any stretch of the imagination.” There has been a lot of political speak in the last two weeks concerning Israel’s

The Living Legacy of Zia Ul-Haq, Godfather of Pakistan’s Modern Jihadist Military Then U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, alarmed by her interaction with trainees at Pakistan’s National Defense University (NDU), where, after addressing them, she had “received astonishingly

America was always a religious nation, but prior to WW II, America was really a Protestant nation, and was fairly hostile to Jews and Catholics, according to historian William G. McLoughlin. (See my 2006 article, “President George Bush talks about