The organizers of the Ground Zero Mosque project have already won a big victory, in a way, and not just in New York’s city government rolling over and playing poodle. By getting millions of Americans to divide into warring camps
Iraq’s chief of staff urges the US military to stay in Iraq until 2020, warning the country’s security forces are not ready to go it alone.
From the Washington Post: As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Iraq this month, the State Department is struggling to implement an expanded mission that it has belatedly realized it might not be able to afford. Money isn’t
President Obama announced Monday that American troops in Iraq will be reduced from 144,000 to 50,000 by the end of this month and that a complete withdrawal will occur by the end of 2011. It still is not clear how
The last U.S. combat brigade remaining in Iraq has handed over a military base in western Baghdad to Iraqi security forces. Jon Decker reports.
Last week the North Korean government (officially, the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, a misuse of the word “democratic” if ever there was one), threatened a massive nuclear strike if the United States and South Korea carried out their annual
The Chronicle of Higher Education, in the course of a long profile about disgraced professor Michael Bellesiles, has this to say about his latest whopper: Then, after I interviewed him, Mr. Bellesiles published an essay in The Chronicle Review. In
I may not have been here to write this today if it wasn’t for Abdi: a young Kenyan ranger, who happens to be Muslim. In 2002, I was arrogantly stalking a young bull elephant in pursuit of the perfect video.
In a powerful new ad for his congressional campaign, Lt. Col. Allen West discusses the incident in Iraq that led to his resignation from the Army. “If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through
Presidents tend to get upset when they discover that their agenda isn’t a carbon copy of the agenda of the voters who put them in office. Some presidents adjust to reality; others seem willing to resort to almost any means
A NY Times story about successes we have had making dead tangos( i.e. counterterrorism) has a bunch of people scrambling to use this to justify all kinds of nonsense. Let’s clarify a few things so that when the punditocracy commences
“If It’s About the Lives of My Men and Their Safety, I’d Go Through Hell with a Gasoline Can” Today Congressional candidate Allen West released a biographical video– setting his distinguished record straight– in response to a nasty campaign of
Ben Stein recently made a useful point about the difference between Americans — and especially the media — during WWII and now. A few weeks ago, I bought a book of front pages of newspapers from World War II. I
[youtube MvfB6Jq0bmA nolink] With Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and “Son of Hamas” author Mosab Hassan Youssef all voicing strong public opposition recently, momentum continues to build against the proposed erection of an Islamist victory arch, er, mosque, near Ground Zero.
As a filmmaker I have always entrusted the lens of a camera to illuminate both the stuff of my imagination and that of this world that otherwise would not be visible. This summer, I was tasked by Move America Forward
Covert Influence Not Propaganda In covert influence, the payload is subtle. When done correctly, it is hard to identify the payload as anything but the creator’s point of view. The payload is disguised as critical thinking, cultural criticism, or intellectual
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
Last week the North Korean government (officially, the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, a misuse of the word “democratic” if ever there was one), threatened a massive nuclear strike if the United States and South Korea carried out their annual
This week, I chose 30 July as the day to represent the Medal, as it has an interesting concatenation of awards. We start, as most days do for the Medal, with the Civil War, and 23 Medals, 21 of them
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
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
Last year, President Obama promised to focus “every single day” on getting Americans back to work: “My commitment to you, the American people, is that I will focus every single day on how we can get people back to work,
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
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
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.”
