Tag: Afghanistan

The huge Republican gain in the mid-term elections diminished significantly President Obama’s political influence domestically and internationally. Domestically, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives is likely to limit Obama’s ability to implement his economic and entitlement policies.

This has been a long night- and with the GOP taking the House, yet the Dems keeping the Senate, there is going to be a great deal of ‘negotiating’ having to be done over what will the new DoD look

With Republicans expected to take the House of Representatives, attention will soon be turning to who on Capitol Hill will be calling the shots on defense and foreign policy. Foreign Policy magazine offers a summary of who’s-who. An excerpt: Foreign

The halls of our Capitol and history tells us a story of our Founding Fathers who committed their lives and sacrificed homes, reputations, careers, families, and even their lives fighting for our freedoms. They lived, loved and breathed a dream.

On October 21, we told you that a DoD official had leaked the findings of a confidential investigation into Michael Furlong and his highly successful Force Protection program to the New York Times. The leak was authorized in an effort

On Saturday, Yemeni police arrested a college girl and her mother in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, a day after parcels containing bombs sparked a global security alert, according to Al-Jazeera. Printer plot bomb: Explosives were hidden in toner cartridge

They failed to ram the hopelessly flawed New START treaty through the Senate this summer. Now the anti-nuke crowd has adopted a new strategy: misrepresent AND smear the opposition. Michael Krepon (below), for example, recently “argued” that those who raise

Last Sunday, the New York Times described a crude scene that smacked of not exactly petty graft. There was Afghanistan’s presidential plane on the Tehran airport tarmac, waiting for one last passenger before wheels up to Kabul. The missing passenger

Britain’s leadership has mismanaged and misinterpreted multiculturalism, leading to a fracturing of British society and mutual distrust between the Muslim community and the rest of the country, the U.K.’s minister of state for security and counterterrorism said Oct. 28. “Multiculturalism

Federal agents arrested a man Wednesday for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C., subway system, the Justice Department announced. It was the second arrest in as many days involving Americans hoping to wage violence for al-Qaida or the Taliban, and

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports: “WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it had no problem with Iran sending bags of cash to President Hamid Karzai but hoped that this assistance would not have a ‘negative’ influence on Afghanistan.” There,

The U.S. Constitution makes a civilian, the President, our commander in chief. This is a good thing. But it also means that our civilian leaders often come up with some crazy, stupid, and dangerous ideas. Foreign Policy has come up

Obama wants to negotiate with the Taliban? What sort of brilliant strategist devised that idea? I’ll see your Holbrooke, and raise you a Hillary. Not since the waning days of the Johnson administration has America had so many clueless eggheads

If, as polls show, war is “off the radar” for midterm voters, it’s a non-issue for midterm candidates, too. Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, show up exactly one time apiece in the GOP Pledge to America (on one page out

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Though moral relativism in the name of self-critiquing multiculturalism is often defended as a bulwark against Nazi-inspired atrocities, its elements are actually inherited from that which originally spawned Nazism. “Since Hitler was defeated in 1945,” the historian Sean McMeekin writes,

As President Obama delivers some “Tough Love” to visiting Pakistani officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, one has to imagine Mullah Omar’s name has come up multiple times. As regular readers of the BIG sites know, we

In April, I reported that the New York Times was about to publish a list of covert American operatives providing force protection for our troops in Afghanistan. A month later, the Times admitted that it did in fact have the

The Christian Science Monitor offers this fascinating and troubling report on the use of private contractors in Afghanistan. Half of the private security companies that the Pentagon is paying in that country are Afghan owned. The paper writes: “The Senate

Recently on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank was joined by Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI) to discuss what will happen, come the 111th Congress, with the defense budget. If there is a new Republican majority, will the Republican Party lead