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July 25, 2008 Barack Lied, Germans Sighed’¦ The Obama Moment “People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time.” What is he talking about? Time for what, exactly? Time for Obama round the clock,... July 25, 2008 Avoiding ‘CSI Kandahar’ ‘... July 24, 2008 Taliban control of Mohmand highlights failures of peace negotiations Omar Khalid, the Taliban commander of Mohmand agency. Less than two months after the Pakistani government negotiated a peace agreement with the local Taliban in the Mohmand tribal... July 24, 2008 Puzzling Republicans As I consign more Republican fund-raising letters from yesterday's mail to the trash can, maybe someone who understands better than I do how Congress operates can help me out here. If (as th... July 24, 2008 Re: Re: Cheap Plug is Just Peachy That's a relief! Have I mentioned that I have this book ...... July 24, 2008 Three Regime Flacks Play Washington Check out this editorial in NOW Lebanon today about the "independent" Syrian regime hands in DC. I will com... July 24, 2008 Re: McCain on Fan and Fred Is McCain at His Very Best Great stuff, Larry. Bravo to Senator McCain for saying what needs to be said, again and again.... July 24, 2008 Más allá de la complacencia Pero como Andrew McCarthy aclara en sus magníficas memorias, Willful Blindness (Ceguera Voluntaria), la modorra persiste; demasiada gente aún no admite que &l... July 24, 2008 Missing the Point on Hamdan The Wall Street Journal’s news story this morning covering the military-commission trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay completely misses the point, as the media and commentators are won... July 23, 2008 Operation ends in Hangu; Government opts for negotiations in northwest The Pakistani military has halted the operation against the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province district of Hangu just seven days after it began. The operation was ended just one day after... July 23, 2008 Sen. Obama, Meet Steve Schippert Mark Levin had this on the radio last night. Our friend Steve Schippert, a former Marine who blogs at his terrific site, Threats Watch, as well as at the Tank on NRO, provided this stirring... July 23, 2008 Iraqi military prepares for offensives in Diyala, Babil Map of Iraq. Click to view. Iraqi security forces are massing more than 30,000 soldiers and police for an upcoming operation against al Qaeda and the Mahdi Army in the eastern... July 23, 2008 Landis Gets the Memo from Imad Moustapha As you know by now, Joshua Landis' job is to regurgitate the talking points memos that Imad Moustapha sends out. Witness this absolutely pathetic exercise, just to get an idea of the value o... July 23, 2008 Messiah Lies About His Senate Committee Assignment This guy is going to be harder than Bill Clinton to keep up with. The next whopper whips along before you have time to wrap your brain around the last one. At Powerline, John Hinde... July 23, 2008 Beyond Complacency: The anti-anti-terrorists push for unilateral disarmament It’s often said that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a “wake-up call’ – that they forced both the political class and the public to seriously (if belatedly) address a p... July 23, 2008 Suspend the Writ For the protection of our troops on the battlefield and the security of all Americans, Congress needs, right now, to take action to reverse Boumediene v.... July 22, 2008 Peace negotiations begin with Taliban in Hangu Orakzai goes red. Red agencies/ districts are controlled by the Taliban; purple districts areunder de facto Taliban control; yellow regions are under Taliban influence. Just... July 22, 2008 Re: Obama’s Iraq Politics To add to Seth's excellent point, does Obama think the Sunni Awakening and the Shia militia stand-down are somehow separate developments from the surge and the brilliant performance of Ameri... July 22, 2008 No Welch For You Pace Jay Solomon's Syrian sources (Imad Mustapha), my own sources tell me that Assistant... July 22, 2008 The Negotiation Gambit Henry Kissinger once remarked that if an intellectual gets it wrong, all he has to do is write another book, while if a policy maker gets it wrong, people may die. To which I would add that... July 21, 2008 Iraqi, US forces keep pressure on the Mahdi Army Iraqi and US troops continue to press the offensive against the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army during a series of raids throughout Iraq. Since July 18, US and Iraqi forces have killed six Mahdi Army f... July 21, 2008 Re: Another 58 States Thing: The Decade Presidents Victor, the truly scary thing about what the Messiah said is that he no doubt figures it's Maliki and Karzai who will be out of power within ten years, not him (Him?).... July 21, 2008 Hezbollah Brigades propaganda specialist captured in Baghdad Hezbollah Brigades' logo is nearly identical to that of Lebanese Hezbollah. Coalition special forces teams, likely the terrorist hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, have... July 21, 2008 Re: Maliki’s “Inartful” Statement If the New York Times account is to be credited, McCain should... July 21, 2008 Kidding Around With the Mullahs Condi Rice has just accused Iran of being “not serious” in negotiations meant to halt its uranium enrichment program. She’s got to be kidding. It’s the endless ch... July 21, 2008 Obscenity Incarnate The Syrian regime's favorite American flack, the hackademic in Oklahoma, has managed to outdo himself today by claiming that the Lebanese "welcomed Hizbullah's move" in May.... July 21, 2008 The US and the LAF David Schenker does us all a favor by dissecting and correcting a remarkably awful and factually erroneous op... July 21, 2008 Somalia Faces Humanitarian Crisis Somalia has faced a humanitarian crisis for much of the year, but now it appears to be growing noticeably worse. A confluence of factors'”including disease outbreaks, a growing famine,... July 20, 2008 Mosul’s IED hunter wounded in attack ... July 19, 2008 Pakistan signs peace accord in Orakzai tribal agency The Pakistani government has negotiated yet another peace agreement with the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan. The latest a... July 19, 2008 Quntar: Hezbollah’s Version of Wiam Wahhab Over at MESH, Michael Young explains the Druze politics, and Hezbollah's attempts to penetrate them, th... July 18, 2008 Hamdan: I’m Happy to Report I Was Wrong Salim Hamdan’s military commission trial will proceed, perhaps as early as Monday. The New York Times... July 18, 2008 Re: Ugly, Vicious Proud-of-My-Country Attack Ads I just want to make sure I have this straight, Byron. A group makes an ad which (a) accurately and truthfully reports what an Obama surrogate -- who just happens to be his wife and closest advise... July 18, 2008 Meanwhile, at Scandals-R-the-UN One way to bury a scandal is to hold a confidential investigation, ignore the findings and pension off the alleged culprit. The United Nations, helped along by diplo... July 18, 2008 Obama on Boumediene & Nuremburg I have an article on the home page today discussing the rulings by civilian and military judges yes... July 18, 2008 The Spreading destruction of the Sa’ada War in Yemen The boundaries of the war in Yemen war are expanding beyond the northern Sa'ada governorate. For the first time, bombing is audible from Sana'a, the nation's capital. Recent battle... July 18, 2008 Do We Really Need a State Department — and Does Anyone in It Own a Copy of the Constitution? I thought I had seen it all a while back when we caught the federal Transportation Security Adminis... July 18, 2008 ISAF rejects claims civilians killed in strike that killed two Taliban commanders The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) denied yesterday's operation in western Afghanistan resulted in civilian deaths. The operation led to the killing of two Taliban leaders an... July 18, 2008 The Hamdan Commission Will Go Forward The Hamdan majority strongly suggested that the military commissions could become regularly constituted courts if they were approved by Congress rather than unilaterally... July 17, 2008 Swapped for Live Terrorists, Two Israeli Soldiers Confirmed Dead The New York Times reports on the burial of the two Israeli soldiers whose remains were exchanged by Hezbollah in return for the release of five terrorists, very much alive. The terrorists... July 17, 2008 Terrible Afghanistan Story: US Forces Withdraw From Post After Fierce Fighting From the AP in yesterday’s Times of London:... July 17, 2008 Who Obama Should See in Iraq Barack Obama is headed to Baghdad, probably within days. It’s a shame he chose to pre-empt the visit with a big speech and an op-ed on the subject. He just might learn a thing or two while... July 17, 2008 Hamdan Ruling: A Win for the Administration … But Maybe Very Temporary The AP reports that a military court has rejected an attempt by Salim Hamdan, a former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, to block his war-crimes trial by military commission. That... July 17, 2008 Pakistani Army launches operation in Hangu; Taliban issue ultimatum The Pakistani Army has launched a military operation against the Taliban in the settled district of Hangu in the Northwest Frontier Province. The military took over security in Hangu fro... July 17, 2008 Decapitation campaign: tracking the liquidation of Afghan insurgent commanders Recent insurgent activity, including several spectacular al Qaeda styled terrorist attacks, has thrust Afghanistan into a quandary unseen since the US-led Coalition invaded the country seven year... July 17, 2008 Obama and the New Yorker Botch James Taranto, at the WSJ’s Best of the Web yesterday, notes another Obama whopper, repeated as if it were fact (i.e., without correction or critique) by the New Yorker cover story: S... July 17, 2008 Re: Anglican Crack-Up It's dangerous for a religious leader to say, ''I have the way and I have the truth and I know how to interpret holy scripture'? I'd always thought that was sort of the p... July 17, 2008 Scandal Central The United Nations likes to sell itself as a mentor of good governance. But the recent deep-sixing of a damning in-house report suggests it might more honestly advertise itself as an example of h... July 17, 2008 La edad de la desinformación A ver, ¿de qué va exactamente el asunto? ¿Cómo es que cultivar caña de azúcar en el Brasil o maíz en Iowa sube el... July 16, 2008 UN Fauxcilitation of the Israel-Hezbollah Swap As if today’s swap of the bodies of kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldiers for live Lebanese terrorists were not sickening enough, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon...

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