Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
The formation of the new Dutch government is still in limbo, but if the Taliban have any say, the PvdA [Labour] will be included in the coalition. The Socialists are regarded as friends of the Islamic radicals, and a Taliban
What if there were still a Soviet Union assessing its strategic position in the world by the well-known “correlation of forces.” If the United States asked itself how it stood within that Soviet perspective, there is at least one dimension
When it comes to security threats to western civilization in general and the United States in particular, Israel, along with nations that make up the European Union are the canaries in the coal mine. When they are under threat, so
Early on the morning of July 23rd a large firework was detonated outside the synagogue in Malmö, the Swedish city with the largest proportion of Muslim immigrants. The synagogue has been attacked in the past, but not with explosives. Our
The United States government should issue an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military documents on his website, and try him on espionage charges. And if Assange doesn’t face
For what purposes is China going to use its growing military? No, they are not going to invade Florida. (Just drill for oil some 50 miles from Spring Break). Nevertheless, they are asserting hegemonic power and it is primarily related
One of the nation’s highest-ranking former spy hunters says that the individuals responsible for the theft and publication of tens of thousands of secret military documents should be prosecuted under federal espionage laws. The Obama Administration is pursuing the disclosure
MEMRI is reporting: “After several leading jihadi forums were recently hacked and forced offline, including Al-Falluja, Al-Shumoukh, and Al-Tahadi, other jihadi sites (as well as Al-Tahadi, which has since reappeared online) have been posting announcements meant to reassure the mujahideen
Things are moving faster than it first appeared, the rails greased by an unctuous British PM Cameron. Indeed, Turkish PM Erdogan is already declaring a “golden age” of Turkey-UK relations. You’ve heard of the Full Monty? Behold the Full Dhimmi.
Three cheers for Newt Gingrich! For the first time, a major national American political figure has directly and accurately taken on the wellspring of the single most dangerous threat we confront today: the comprehensive, totalitarian and barbaric program the authorities
After World War Two, territorial changes in Western Europe were supposed to be a thing of past. The fall of the Soviet Empire required big adjustments to the map of Eastern and Central Europe, but once all those changes were
If the Senate doesn’t ratify New START, proponents of the arms-control agreement fear, then … well, the world will come to end. The latest warning came from Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation that advocates a nuclear
During my last year in the military I was involved in an organization whose purpose was to attack enemy roadside bomb (IED) networks, defeat the IED devices, and train the force to prepare them for the IED environment. Recently, we
China’s military power has long been assessed almost solely in terms of its ability to use that capability to invade the Republic of China or Taiwan. This has led some wags to ridicule American concerns, describing the PRC threat to
Thus reports the Christian Science Monitor. Question: Aren’t they about nine years late? “Prime Minister Francois Fillon said France is ‘at war with Al Qaeda’ after the announced killing of a French hostage by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Mali.
My recent post on those ubiquitous “COEXIST” bumperstickers seemed to touch a nerve among those of us sick of being subjected to pinko lectures via the tailgates of fast lane-plugging Prius hybrids and decaying VW vans. But “COEXIST” is only
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Apparently both Red China and North Korea appear to be – and I stress the word appear – as unreasonable with President Obama as Obama has become blatantly unreasonable with the American people. Some might call it, in the case
Marc Thiessen writes in today’s Washington Post: “The recent terrorist attacks in Kampala, Uganda, and the court hearing Monday of an American charged with trying to join the jihad in Somalia, are worrisome signs that a new transnational terrorist network
During the Bush years, when the fight against Islamic terror was still relatively new, big newspapers and other media outlets raced to publish or broadcast major state secrets of the war. The New York Times splashed all over its front
The drama playing out over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland reveals a continued and tragic blindness of the United States and its allies about the origins of terrorism. The President’s Commission on Aviation Security
I take seriously our nation’s security. In the oath that I took to become the U.S. Representative of Hawai’i’s First Congressional District, I swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
I was invited to Washington to screen BORDER for the House and the Senate. We showed them the reality of the border. We explained the reality of the coming war. Nothing happened. No wait, check that: Rep. Virgil Goode (R.
*** Updated and clarified In a recent post, respected milblogger Bill Roggio of The Long War Journal had this to say about Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s status, a story we have been discussing since May: Mullah Omar is thought to
