... TagViewer (entries by tag)
... TagViewer (entries by tag)
A lot of people are angry at President Obama for this decision (surprise!), but it should be pointed out that the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously recommended this course of action. Are they all wrong? [Video]
Cold War heroes Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel, along with 20 other European leaders and intellectuals, have written an open letter to Barack Obama pleading with him not to cave in to Russia and give up on missile defense. [T]he thorniest issue may well be America’s planned missile-defense installations. ...
Today, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued one of those political non-apology apologies we’ve come to know so well, intended to mollify the Islamic world while giving himself a way to argue that he didn’t really apologize at all. And also intended to smooth the way for his ...
What do you have to do to become the secretary general of NATO these days? Apologize to the Islamic world for exercising your right to freedom of expression. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s leader, was one of the few European politicians who refused to give in to pressure from fundamentalists ...
Max Boot on the situation in Afghanistan: Better Than You Think. I have just returned from Afghanistan shocked by the depth of the disconnect between reality and reporting. The coalition officers that I spoke with expressed confidence that with the U.S. reinforcements now flowing into the country, they will ...
The US has called a meeting of NATO’s 26 foreign ministers to discuss the Georgia crisis. BRUSSELS (AFP) - Russian and US officials ramped up the diplomatic war of words on Monday on the eve of an extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss the crisis in Georgia. ...
We’ve had several posts about the Taliban’s planned “spring offensive,” which they’ve been announcing with great relish through jihad web sites and Arab media; Bill Roggio says NATO forces don’t plan on waiting around for it to happen: Operation Achilles: NATO’s offensive in Helmand province. As mentioned previously, NATO is ...