WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermine civilian control of the military and erode the needed trust on
With his future as the top U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan uncertain, Gen. Stanley McChrystal arrived at the White House to explain his biting complaints about President Barack Obama and his aides directly to the commander in chief.
There is a good reason why my fellow scientists and I follow strict rules for interpreting data: it helps prevent biased conclusions. For the same reason, journalists would do well to adhere to those rules when they write articles involving
Shortly after President Obama assumed the Commander-in-Chief duties, he retired the existing commanding general in Afghanistan and hand-picked his successor: General Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal was always known as a brash and outspoken military man, an expert in counterinsurgency, greatly respected
I wonder how a certain left-wing film site will cover “The Tillman Story,” a documentary about Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan directed by Amir Bar-Lev and narrated by Josh Brolin (this Josh Brolin?) that’s set for a theatrical release August
I’ve seen top heavyweights tangle many times. Mike Tyson was the most brutal I’ve seen, but Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield top the list the best matchups I’ve seen. Now we have Obama vs. McChrystal. The President vs. the General.
Barack Obama’s problem with top Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McCrystal is one of his own making. McCrystal and his staff – in a much-ballyhooed article in Rolling Stone set to be published on Friday – are reportedly disdainful and disrespectful
Near Lumpini Park, Bangkok. (May 2010): Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand. As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not
Al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, has repeated the militant group’s conditions for peace with America. Among other things, he’s calling on President Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and end support for Israel.
Last week, Congresswoman Giffords met with General Patraeus on Capitol Hill. This meeting took place after we have lost over thirty American soldiers in Afghanistan this month. The burning question on Ms. Giffords’ mind was: what are we doing to
All warfare is intertwined with politics in some way. But in our latest edition of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson talks with acclaimed author Sebastian Junger (famous for The Perfect Storm) about the experience of war. Beginning in 2007, Junger embedded
CNN’s Nic Robertson examines the harsh realities of forced marriage for some Afghan child brides. (Disturbing images)
I was reading Pam Meister’s excellent piece here on Big Hollywood about Hollywood’s lack of attention to the continuing ecological disaster in the Gulf. In it she echoed my sentiments from a month ago when I wrote about the lack
One month ago we broke the exclusive story of Mullah Omar’s capture. Additional confirmations have come from The Jawa Report, Oliver North, Milblogger Baba Tim, Blackfive.net, and even The Nation. Then, two weeks ago, Newsweek published a report that the
One month ago we broke the exclusive story of Mullah Omar’s capture. Additional confirmations have come from The Jawa Report, Oliver North, Milblogger Baba Tim, Blackfive.net, and even The Nation. Then, two weeks ago, Newsweek published a report that the
On May 24th, at Track 16 Gallery in fashionable Bergamont Station in Santa Monica, CA, dozens of marginal works of art were nearly destroyed by the exploding heads of some of SoCal’s finest and most dogmatic liberals, as a roomful
At least seven people have been killed in Pakistan in an attack on military vehicles and goods destined for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
After having to quietly pull cropped and photoshopped images that hid jihadist violence on the Mavi Marmara, images that were edited in explicit violation of their ethics guidelines, Reuters is now quietly reissuing the full undoctored photos. And adding this
Smart Moms raise smart kids: Brunei, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Published: 08 June 2010 A Gurkha Idea Among the more interesting coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan are the legendary Nepalese Gurkhas. Trained and fielded by the British, as they
Since the early twentieth century, periods of real or perceived national emergency have been “critical episodes” in the growth of government’s size, scope, and power in the United States and in many other countries. Hence, the concise conceptualization: Crisis and
Hamas ally Jodie Evans and President Barack Obama, October 15, 2009. Democrat party front group Media Matters for America has released several statements in recent days seeking to throw reporters off the trail of the strong ties between President Barack
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: On Memorial Day, two historic World War II planes flew with a B-17 bomber while dropping flowers over the Statue of Liberty as a tribute to the seven CIA officers killed
On Friday, Newsweek “We Are All Socialists Now” Magazine published an article entitled, “Taliban in Turmoil.” In it they report: Dissension has broken out in the top ranks of Afghanistan’s Taliban. The group has muddled along without an operational head
ABC News: Obama, who has sent thousands of troops into war in Afghanistan, used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to reflect on what the nation owes those men and women who died in uniform. Honor them with words
The best war journalist of our time has been kicked out of Afghanistan and the media could not care less. Let the administration boot Helen Thomas out of her seat in the front of a White House press conference and
