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Telegraphing weakness to an enemy on the brink of testing a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead; what could possibly go wrong with a strategy like that? Gates: U.S. Not Prepared to Respond to North Korea Missile Launch. The United States can do nothing to stop North ...
North Korea, Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Robert Gates
At City Journal, Paul Beston has a piece on the history of the now-lifted ban on media coverage of slain soldiers’ coffins: The Media’s Coffin Politics. In force since the outset of the Gulf War in 1991, the ban was triggered by an incident in the aftermath of the ...
This is a cause very dear to the hearts of leftists, because they think it will destroy Americans’ support for the military. And in the new age of hope and change even Robert Gates is considering it: Gates open to lifting ban on casket photos.
No surprises here, just the expected announcements: Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet. CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before ...
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, State Department
Lunatics and antisemites are coming out of the woodwork, and demanding that Barack Obama appoint an anti-war Secretary of Defense. Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to dump Defense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice. ...