Distinguished person of the week
There is a great deal of silliness and downright fabrication about foreign policy taking place in both parties’ presidential primaries. Neither side is being forthright about the extent of...
Raymond T. Odierno
Former Top US General In Iraq Says Beating ISIS Would Require 50,000 Troops
Retired Army Gen. Ray Odierno believes it will take around 50,000 troops to destroy Islamic State, and as the former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq for several years during the wave and occupat...
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Top general: 50,000-troop coalition needed in order to crush ISIS
It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff who spent more than four years serving in Iraq and who is credited...
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Odierno: 50,000 Troops Needed To Defeat the Islamic State
It will take around 50,000 troops to destroy the Islamic State, according to the Army’s recently retired chief, but they don’t necessarily all have to be American. Th...
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Restoring Peace Through Strength
Here’s a question I might suggest be asked of our presidential hopefuls: In a time of war, would unilateral disarmament be a good idea? Here’s how I might suggest they reply:...
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Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Chuck Schumer a Letter
Or may I call you “Chuck”? About 30 years ago when I first met you, you were an informal kind of guy. You had recently been elected to the House from a district in Brooklyn and Queens...
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Iranian-backed Shia terror group remains a threat in Iraq: General Odierno
Logo for the Hezbollah Brigades from a propaganda video released on the Internet. An Iranian-backed Shia terror group continues to remain a threat to US forces in Iraq, the top...
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Al Qaeda in Iraq is ‘broken,’ cut off from leaders in Paksitan, says top US general
Iraqi and US forces have hit al Qaeda in Iraq hard over the last several months, crippling the terror group's senior leadership and disrupting its communications with al Qaeda's top lea...
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Iraqi forces kill al Qaeda’ s top military commander in the north
Iraqi security forces killed al Qaeda in Iraq's top military commander for the north during a raid yesterday in the outskirts of Mosul. The al Qaeda military commander, identified a...
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US and Iraqi forces kill Al Masri and Baghdadi, al Qaeda in Iraq’s top two leaders
Iraq's Prime Minister and the US military confirmed that al Qaeda in Iraq's top two leaders have been killed during a raid in a remote region in the western province of Anbar....
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Iran Took A Hit In Iraq, But Will Obama Profit?
The emerging picture from last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq points to the return of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office. Preliminary results also suggest that Iran’s al...
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Hope And Change In Iraq
In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of...
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Why Does Obama Refuse to Lead in Iraq?
Last week, General Raymond Odierno, the commander of American forces in Iraq, made statements that refocused attention on the strategic importance of Iraq for US regional interests. Odierno frame...
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Who’s Losing Iraq?
Robert Dreyfus, a journalist of the left with whom I seldom agree, writes for The Nation, a publication of the far left that usually makes my eyes roll. But in...
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The “Lebanonization” of Iraq
Over the past few weeks, several important statements have come out of Iraq - both from Iraqi officials and top US commanders - regarding the recent bomb attacks in the country and their perpetra...
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Obama Derangement Syndrome?
Long afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome, Rall has his knickers in a knot now because he thinks Obama has a plan for "preventive detentions." He claims to have seen "reports in U.S. state-co...
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Afghan Awakening
IN SEPTEMBER of 2008, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a remarkable statement. He said, "I'm not convinced we're winning in Afghanistan. I am conv...
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US Senate confirms Petraeus for Middle East command
The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly confirmed Army Gen. David Petraeus as commander of the military headquarters responsible for U.S. operations across the Middle East, including Iraq and...
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Surging: It’s getting harder to deny that General Petraeus is making progress
“The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington back in December of l...
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Las Buenas Noticias son Malas Noticias
Es duro ser miembro del Congreso. Incluso si uno está en la mayoría, como la representante Nancy Boyda de Kansas, uno nunca sabe cuándo sus oídos pueden verse asaltado...