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June 24, 2008
Iraq Options, Are victory and defeat the only alternatives?
Yet that is what many Americans now favor, perhaps because they have been persuaded that when Sunnis and Shites kill one another, Americans must be to blame. With apologies to Carly Simon:...
June 24, 2008
Welcome to Boumediene World
Here we go. The Los Angeles Times and...
June 23, 2008
Kofi Annan’ s Climate Cocktail Dinatoire in Geneva
In case anyone’s lost track of Kofi Annan, it’s time for a reality check. During his final year as self-styled “Chief Diplomat of the World” at the UN, he...
June 23, 2008
Afghan, US forces kill 55 Taliban after ambush
US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and "inflicted heavy casualties" on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 re...
June 22, 2008
One hundred insurgents detained in Baghdad during past week
BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces in and around Baghdad captured more than 100 insurgents and defused 147 improved explosive devices during the past week as part of contin...
June 22, 2008
Tonight, a ’60 Minutes’ Expose Worth Watching: Your Tax Dollars for Enemy Propaganda
In World War II, when Tokyo Rose broadcast enemy propaganda, at least the enemy had to foot the bills for it. Times change, and now there’s Al Hurra. Se...
June 22, 2008
Operations target Mahdi Army in South
Iraqi security forces continue to target the Sadrist movement and the Mahdi Army in the southern provinces of Maysan, Dhi Qhar, and Wasit over the weekend. More than 113 Mahdi Army fighters...
June 22, 2008
The Confrontation
In Future Jihad, terrorism and Middle East expert Walid Phares gave a definitive account of the historical and cultural forces that led to September 11 and the rise of radical Islam. In The War o...
June 21, 2008
Could Be the Best Reason Yet for a Military Strike on Iran
Mohamed El Baradei, head of the UN’s IAEA, says if there’s a military strike on Iran, he’ll resign. On the road to a safer world, what a two-fer! According to...
June 21, 2008
Afghan base in Paktika hit with rounds launched from Pakistan
An Afghan Army base and a Coalition base were targeted by rockets or mortars launched from across the border in Pakistan on Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force reported....
June 21, 2008
Three senior Mahdi Army commanders captured in Baghdad, Hillah
Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a senior Mahdi Army commander with "close ties" to Muqtada al Sadr's office in Najaf on June 19. Two other senior Mahdi Army commanders in Baghdad an...
June 20, 2008
A MNSTC-I Status Report
n spring 2008, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) markedly increased their conduct of independent operations throughout Iraq. Between April and May, the ISF mounted offensives in Basra, Sadr C...
June 20, 2008
The Bottom Line
A NOW Lebanon editorial lays out the bottom line: [T]oday, we are fast moving to a stage where Lebanon is not big enough for both Hezbollah and Lebanon&rs...
June 20, 2008
Maysan operation continues to target Sadrist leaders
The Iraqi security forces have detained five senior Sadrist leaders and a department director in Maysan province during Operation Promise of Peace. The Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Sad...
June 19, 2008
Uh-Oh, University of Chicago in Danger of Fostering Genuine Diversity of Ideas
Three cheers for the University of Chicago’s President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum, for sticking to their plans to name a new research center after the late Milton Friedman &...
June 19, 2008
US designates two Hezbollah operatives in Venezuela as terrorists
The US Treasury Department has added two Venezuelans to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for their support of Hezbollah. Ghazi Nasr al Din, a Venezuelan diplomat, and Fawz...
June 19, 2008
It Was a Nuclear Site
This is from Le Monde today: D'après nos informations, l'AIEA détient des données, provenant de plusieurs sources non am&...
June 19, 2008
Afghanistan National Security Forces: June 2008 Update
The June 2008 updates to the Afghan National Security Forces Order of Battle are now available at the ANSF OOB homepage. The significant changes to the Order of Battle that occurred since J...
June 19, 2008
Iraqi security forces detain senior Sadrist during Maysan operation
The Iraqi security forces today formally kicked off the operations against the Mahdi Army in the southern province of Maysan. On the day the government's amnesty offer expired, the Ira...
June 18, 2008
Mahdi Army cell leader behind deadly Baghdad bombing
Yesterday's car bomb attack in the Shia neighborhood of Hayy Hurriyah in Baghdad's Kadamiyah district was carried out by a Mahdi Army Special Group cell, and not al Qaeda in Iraq,...
June 17, 2008
UN Buddies Up With Terror-Linked Islamic Charity ‘” Again
It sounds like the ultimate Dog-Bites-Man story – ho hum, there’s the UN climbing into bed with yet another terror-linked outfit. Does it really matter? You b...
June 17, 2008
Re: Paging Andy McCarthy
I am traveling to D.C. today, having spent my morning responding to Barack Obama’s remarkable views urging a return to heavy reliance on the criminal justice system as a counterterror...
June 16, 2008
Kmiec on Obama on Abortion — Say What?
“Not to understand that there is more than one rather indirect and elusive judicial way to address an intrinsic evil understates the ingenuity of the devout.” Not to un...
June 16, 2008
TAI: Hezbollah’s Dangerous Gamble
Introduction This past May saw Hezbollah's second coup attempt in as many years. The first was after the 2006 war, when Hezbollah took to the streets with the goal of bringing...
June 16, 2008
GAG …
If this gem from the Minnesota Star Tribune doesn’t make you ill, nothing will. It’s from a typical media account about how difficult it is for devout Muslims to endure th...
June 16, 2008
A Way Forward After Last Week’s Supreme Court Ruling on Enemy Combatants
While lots more gnashing of teeth is called for, I think it’s extremely important that we push ahead with concrete, practical steps to prevent what could be disastrous fallout from th...
June 15, 2008
Maliki’s Moment
The Washington Post notes in an editorial that Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki has had the courage to stand up to Iran and emphasize his desire for a long-strategic partnership with the U.S....
June 13, 2008
Sadr’s Special Groups
In the past month, Iraqi and coalition forces have succeeded in their fight against the Mahdi Army's "special groups." On May 3, the U.S. military destroyed a special groups command center i...
June 12, 2008
A Courtroom, er, Battlefield We Can Win On
An old government friend emails with a practical response to the Supreme Court: Let’s free all Gitmo detainees…on a vast, deserted, open and...
June 12, 2008
5 to 4
I was going out the door this morning when I learned about the Supreme Court ruling — that the American people had lost to radical Islam, 5 to 4. I was on my way to Shea Stadium.&n...
June 12, 2008
In the UN’ s Cash-for-Kim Scandal, Who Got Punished?
In the UNDP welter (see post below) of botched and missing records, violations of the UN’s own rules, derelictions of duty, aid, comfort and dual-use procurement for a murderous totalitaria...
June 12, 2008
Medal of Freedom to … Donna Shalala
I have no great brief against Donna Shalala, Sec’y of HHS in the Clinton administration, but a Medal of Freedom? [Power Line has the story, as does Winfield Myers, who does carr...
June 12, 2008
Blankley on Kurtz on De Zutter on Obama
Tony Blankley wonders why the mainstream press is ignoring the serious questions about Obama and the radical Left raised by Stanley’s important NRO article from June 2. Blankley...
June 12, 2008
Blunt Message for McCain from WSJ
A great editorial from the Wall Street Journal this morning on the insanity of legal restrictions on energy exploration and production while prices soar. For the Arizona Senator who s...
June 11, 2008
So Who Replaces Jim Johnson?
Suggestions? Sandy Berger may be available …...
June 11, 2008
“Mosquito-infested Bog”?
But Rich, he says it’s just like the Grand Canyon!...
June 10, 2008
Re: Anatomy of an Obama Hit Job
Remarkable, isn’t it, that someone so concerned about our image in the “international community,” so offended by Bush’s purported cowboy insensitivity, can get so sp...
June 9, 2008
Hate To Break This To You: Moderate Isn’t Mainstream and Extremist Isn’t Radical
Hard to decide what is more maddening in stories like these — the fact that there are ALWAYS stories like these, or the media’s stubborn refusal to come to grips with the evidence of...
June 8, 2008
Shades of Steyn! Our Friends the Pakistanis Threaten — er, I Mean, Request the EU to End Free Expr
From the Daily Times of Pakistan [h/t: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch]: Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression...
June 8, 2008
“A Systematic Refusal To View Our Enemies Plain”
I know Cliff has already mentioned this, but what a wonderful, compelling piece by Michael Ledeen in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Required reading....
June 7, 2008
Obama’s Veep Selection Committee
At Pajamas Media, Jen Rubin revisits Obama selectee Eric Holder’s shoddy role in the Clinton pardons, particularly Marc Rich, and how roundly it was condemned by top Dems and the medi...
June 7, 2008
Re: 1976 Redux?
With one encouraging exception, Rich. This time, in October, if the Republican announces at a debate that Poland is “independent and autonomous” from the Soviet Union, it...
June 7, 2008
On Messianic Mass Movements
Our friend Michael Ledeen is well know thanks to many achievements and more than a few controversies. But above all he is a scholar who has spent many decades studying fascism in all its fo...
June 6, 2008
Before Becoming a Martyr, Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wants to Represent Himself at His Commission Trial
... and I think he's providing a useful example of why we shouldn't try enemy combatants in the civilian courts, as explained in this afternoon's article, here....
June 6, 2008
Tooting …
Sorry, Jonah. I thought about, um, “blow my own horn” but that didn’t sound a whole lot better. Back to the drawing board …...
June 6, 2008
More NRO, News Central
K-Lo, not that I would ever toot my own flute, but that Times article goes on to say: Mr. McCain had previously stopped short of endorsing the view that M...
June 6, 2008
What If Today’s Media Were Reporting on June 6, 1944?
Roger Kimball thinks their D-Day headline would look something like this: Breaking news! US Army pinned down in bungled assault. Huge civilian casualties....
June 6, 2008
9/11 Plotters Are Arraigned
Unable to start a single trial in seven fitful years, much less complete one, President Bush’s troubled military commissions may be lumbering...
June 5, 2008
Re: Change We Can Believe In
I’m loving Byron’s posts about Obama’s choice of Jim Johnson for the Veep Committee — I hadn’t connected those dots. Dick Morris, meanwhile, is apparentl...
June 5, 2008
Prison Is So Confining for Terrorists
A few weekends ago, our friend Peter Robinson and I had an exchange on the Corner about why it is so difficult to prevent prison inmates from continuing their criminal activities from behin...
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