Eleven years after 9/11, with no war in Iraq and operations in Afghanistan winding down, Obama has seen fit to extend it once again. “The declaration, which has to be reissued each year, invokes several war-time powers that give the
From BarackObama.com: Mitt Romney has insulted our closest allies, rushed to judgement without facts while Americans were under attack, called Russia–not al Qaeda, our greatest threat, called the Iraq withdrawal “tragic”, and didn’t even mention Afghanistan in his convention speech.
Mitt Romney says the risk of conflict in the Middle East has grown under President Barack Obama’s leadership. The Republican presidential contender is calling for a “change of course” in the region. Mitt Romney: “In Iraq, the costly gains made
War films have come up with some of the most poignant and dramatic scenes in all of cinema. Some moviescan boast more than one such scene that sticks in a person’s mind. Which of these scenes have been themost memorable?
When Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) debates Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night, he will be under pressure to repeat Mitt Romney’s victory over President Barack Obama last week–and to prove that he can meet the “commander-in-chief test.” It is a
Next week, on October 10, The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will open hearings into what went wrong at the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The committee will start by calling two witnesses: Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom, who
(AP) Turkey renews artillery strikes on SyriaBy SUZAN FRASERAssociated PressANKARA, TurkeyTurkey fired on Syrian targets for a second day Thursday but said it has no intention of declaring war, despite tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in
The Weekly Standard: “I’ve put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan,” President Obama said during his debate with Mitt Romney on Wednesday night. “It’s on a website. You can look at all the numbers, what cuts we make and
Just two weeks after the US Embassy in Egypt was ransacked by terrorists and a band of Egyptian thugs, President Obama announced that he would provide Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood government with an emergency infusion of $450 million in US
(AP) US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000By PATRICK QUINNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that now garners little public interest at home
The Arab American Institute has released the results of a September survey of 400 Arab Americans, which shows that a majority support Democratic President Barack Obama in the race for the White House. There has been a significant 15 percent
Mitt Romney is not going to win the White House if he doesn’t speak in plain terms about the true nature of this election campaign. That is, if Romney doesn’t stand up and point out the obvious–that he’s not
People died, Obama lied. That’s the best summary of what has happened since Sept. 11, when terrorists (yes, terrorists) attacked the U.S. consulate in Libya, killing four Americans and the U.S. Ambassador, while terrorist sympathizers swarmed the U.S. embassy in
The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan has come and gone, and not much has changed since Obama initiated it in 2009, according to data released by NATO. The Taliban’s momentum has not been stopped and attacks on our troops are
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former “Sons of Anarchy” actor Johnny Lewis was found dead on Wednesday in a Los Angeles neighborhood where he was suspected of killing an 81-year-old woman whom he may have been renting a room from, police
The President’s approach to the Middle East over the last three years suggests Obama has a bi-polar foreign policy. He alternates between moments of laying low, as in Iran, and manic energy for change, as in Egypt. The result is
At the United Nations today, President Obama explained to the world that we would not disengage from the Middle East … unless they were mean to us. He stated that America’s efforts in the Middle East depended on the goodwill
(AP) Iran ayatollah is poster boy for influence in IraqBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and LARA JAKESAssociated PressBAGHDADAfter years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran’s presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran’s supreme
Afghanistan on Tuesday welcomed a Pentagon decision to put two US Marines on trial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for photographs with them. The Pentagon announced that Staff Sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola
Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel. The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and
Senator John McCain is changing positions on the war in Afghanistan, and is now open to the idea of pulling all troops out of the region. Up to this point, McCain has opposed pulling all remaining troops out in 2014,
The Obama Doctrine of pulling our troops out of Iraq has been a disaster; any hope the United States had that Iraq would become our ally is gone. Now Iraq is actually cooperating with our enemy Iran to fly military
Clint Eastwood has always been a free-thinking artist the media can’t quite pigeonhole. Some on the Right tried to make him out to be another Lefty Hollywood actor when he filmed a commercial for Chrysler that aired during the Super
Fox News: An Iraq war veteran was asked by the property manager to take down the American flag that he hung from his California apartment balcony for 9/11. Amy Grossman, the veteran’s wife, said, “She wanted it to be removed
The Obama administration’s repeated lie about the attacks on U.S. targets across the Middle East–i.e. that the motive is anger about a film, not anger at the U.S.–reveals a deeper truth: the Obama camp really does believe he is loved
