On the same day President Barack Obama recognized the main Syrian opposition coalition as the rightful representatives of the Syrian people, his State Department classified the al-Nusra Front, an increasingly popular Islamist rebel faction, as a terrorist group. The classification
The Christian Science Monitor: The speed with which the US government moved to designate a fairly new group that has never attacked US interests and is engaged in fighting a regime that successive administrations have demonized is evidence of the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt’s president Morsi to allow the army to arrest people Egypt’s opposition plans mass rally in Cairo on Tuesday U.S. tries to slow growth of ‘Al-Qaeda in Iraq’ in Syria Mercedes-Benz gives Pope Benedict
The military was highly politicized during the Vietnam War, and our troops were the worse for it. Instead of learning the hard lessons taught by the mistakes of the 1960s and early 70s, our military has undergone another wave of
Syrian rebels with ties to Al Qaeda make up a growing portion of the Syrian opposition, thereby posing a serious problem for Obama administration officials formulating U.S. Syrian policy. The Al Qaeda-affiliated group filing ranks in the opposition is called
A former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan has been chained to a bed in a Mexican prison since August. Jon Hammar faces up to 12 years in a Mexican jail on what may be a trumped-up charge
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi cancels his decree, but not the referendum Will President Obama follow Morsi’s example? North Korea says it may delay its long-range rocket launch Panic spreads as Mayan apocalypse date December 21
WAPO’s David Ignatius had an important Dec. 7 column in which he raised a question about Obama’s stance toward the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and then answered his own question. The question was crucial: “How did Washington
TIME has published a year-end top ten best and worst places in the world to live. Sadly, there isn’t a single place in the U.S.A. on that list. The worst place to live on this list is, unsurprisingly, the disaster-prone (both
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Is Syria’s Assad likely to use his aging chemical weapons arsenal? Syria’s opposition increasingly frustrated by lack of American support Egypt’s president Morsi considers making concessions to opposition Is Syria’s Assad likely to use
PSY, the singer of “Gangnam Style,” apologized to Americans today for his anti-American actions nearly a decade ago in South Korea in which he sang inflammatory lyrics that called for “f****ng Yankees” who have been torturing Iraqis and “their daughters,
With U.S. troops out of Iraq and soon to leave Afghanistan, plans for re-focusing our military are already shifting to other areas — specifically, the Pacific. Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, head of U.S. Pacific Command, said the new focus
Cheney: It’s a very very dangerous part of the world.. and when I hear that our President uh got Bin Laden, problem solved. Uh that Al Queda is toast, that they are significantly diminished and that we can pivot now
Boko Haram is a Nigerian-based terror group which actually brags of its ties to Al Qaeda. Since 2009, it has conducted a brutal and intense war against its own government which has involved the slaughter of Christians. It has also
A Houston Police Department counselor named Paul Schroeder, who was hired to use his post-combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan to help returning soldiers adapt to civilian life again, has been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison for “altering
A Jordanian terrorist plot uncovered and stopped in late October before it could be carried out is indicative of a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq. The goal of the planned attack was to capture the U.S. Embassy in Jordan. The plan was
In the classic noir novel The Big Sleep, the world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe muses on a man’s final resting place in a dirty sump: “You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things
Note from Senior Management: Pat Caddell, Fox News Contributor and top Democratic strategist, continues his series of exclusive commentary and analysis for Breitbart News concerning the recent election and the future of the Republic. If present trends continue, the Republicans will
Greg Pollowitz at NRO’s terrific Media Blog caught this: If the editors truly believe this, then Afghanistan was lost in 2002 — when Bush started making his case to the international community to take action against Iraq if they did
Bradley Manning took the stand in a pre-trial hearing Thursday to recount what his legal defense has described as “unlawful pretrial punishment,” an attempt aimed at avoiding trial in the WikiLeaks case. It was the first time the army private
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The Left got enormous mileage out of the “Bush Lied” meme. Democrats and Republicans alike told the public for years that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction based on intelligence gathered by both the U.S. and other countries. That didn’t
(AP) Wave of attacks in Iraq kills at least 43 peopleBy SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated PressBAGHDADBack-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials
Andrew Rosenthal, editor of the New York Times’ editorial page, angrily conceded today that Republicans have successfully defeated any chance Susan Rice had to become Secretary of State. I couldn’t disagree with him more on that issue, but here’s some willful ignorance
In a piece written for Arab News in October marking the 39th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Abdulateef Al Mulhim, a retired commodore from the Royal Saudi Navy, took a highly unorthodox position. that the real villains in the
Because — and this is a direct quote — “the optics of it are terrible; old white guys taking on a young African-American woman,” every single panelist on “Morning Joe” — Joe, Mika, Heilemann, Geist, Halperin, and some insufferable
