TagsTagsCharles Krauthammer’s column today is about the Obama administration’s newfound fondness for the policies of the Bush administration: Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism. If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, War on Terror
I’m really not sorry to see the phrase “War on Terror” being retired by the Pentagon; it’s always seemed like a complete misnomer. You don’t fight a war against a tactic, you fight against people with an ideology. This battle would have been much better described as the “War on ...
In the shiny happy land of Hopenchange, we have no need for these antiquated measures of “security:” Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End. Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military’s Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas ...
I have to admit, I had not heard of novelist Vince Flynn or his character Mitch Rapp before reading this interview, but he sounds like an LGF kind of lizard. Q: How can we win the war on terrorism when many cannot acknowledge who the enemy is? A: That’s a tough ...
Newsbusters catches the world’s most unreliable major wire service, Agence France Press, publishing two completely opposite opinions on the Iraqi surge—by the same writer.
LGF, Iraq, Surge, War on Terror, Islamic Fascism, Militant Islam
An Al Qaeda bag man who smuggled huge amounts of money into Iraq has been captured. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An al Qaeda bag man smuggled $100 million into Iraq during the past few months to finance terrorist operations, according to the U.S. military. The unidentified man, arrested Tuesday near Baghdad, ...
LGF, Iraq, Surge, War on Terror, Islamic Fascism, Militant Islam
A rather amazing admission from British center-left magazine Prospect: Mission accomplished. The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s ...
LGF, Iraq, Surge, War on Terror, Islamic Fascism, Militant Islam
Newsweek comes in for plenty of well-deserved criticism around here, particularly for their egregious whitewashes of radical Islam and their blatantly leftist bias, but here’s an article they did right: The Ongoing Hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s a little difficult to read, because it confirms all our worst fears about ...
From Commentary Magazine’s Contentions blog, here’s an interview with Max Boot on the war in Iraq and the troop “surge,” and the overall war against jihadism and Islamic supremacism. [Video]
LGF, Iraq, Surge, War on Terror, Islamic Fascism, Militant Islam
Absolutely disgusting. Condoleezza Rice pandering to a Holocaust-denying thug like Mahmoud Abbas—and Abbas has the sheer gall to throw it right back at us: Abbas: No ‘temporary’ Palestinian state. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of ...
The latest Big Lie universally promoted by the mainstream wire services is that Palestinian Authority chairman/president/etc. Mahmoud Abbas is in some sense a “moderate.” (The word “secular” is also used often.) A search of Yahoo’s wire stories for “moderate Abbas” turns up about 373 stories in the past 30 days. In ...
The United States is going to give $86 million to terrorists who wish Al Qaeda success in attacking America and assassinating our President. (Hat tip: It Shines For All.) The insanity never stops.
Diana West says that the only solution to the Sunni-Shi’ite feud is to Let the Muslims fight it out. As a culture, however, the West is paralyzed by the specter of civilian casualties, massive or not, that accompanies modern (not high-tech) warfare, and fights accordingly. It may well have been massive ...
This piece by Tom Zeller at the New York Times about the nonexistent Iraqi police captain and his imaginary war crimes is a little more fair than I expected. He actually seems to realize there may be a problem at the Associated Press, although he does get in the obligatory ...
New York Times, Media Bias, War on Terror, Iraq, Associated Press
Andrew McCarthy is on target with this one, as the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group prepares to recommend “dialog” with our mortal enemies: Can We Talk? When I grew up in The Bronx, there were street gangs. You mostly stayed away from them, and, if you really had to, you fought with ...
Zeyad at Healing Iraq could use some help getting his brother out of Baghdad, where from all accounts, the jihadis on both sides of the Sunni-Shi’ite divide are trying to outdo each other with horrific violence. Click through and read his story.
Iraq, War on Terror, Jihad, Militant Islam, Propaganda, MSM, Media Bias
Curt at Flopping Aces has received confirmation from CENTCOM that “Iraqi police Capt. Jamil Hussein,” cited as a source (often the only source) in a long string of media articles about murders and atrocities in Iraq (including the recent report of 6 people burned alive), is not a police officer, ...
Iraq, War on Terror, Jihad, Militant Islam, Propaganda, MSM, Media Bias
A good one from Michael Novak: What the Islamists Have Learned. What we have discovered in Iraq is the weakest link in the ability of the United States to sustain military operations overseas. That link is the U.S. media. They are Islamists’ best friends. Experience shows that the mainstream press of the ...
War on Terror, Radical Islam, Islamic Supremacism, Media Bias, Propaganda
Four American civilians have been taken hostage in Iraq, and an Austrian murdered; Rusty Shackleford is following the story closely: Four Americans Kidnapped in Iraq, Austrian Civilian Killed.
An absolutely ridiculous statement today from the editors of the New York Times, where they seem to have missed every single hearing and investigation that’s happened in the last 6 years: Democrats and Iraq. Under Republican control, Congress has exercised virtually no oversight of the administration’s misconduct of the war, and ...
The nation’s dumbest Democrat, Barbara Boxer, has a plan to lose in Iraq. (Hat tip: Daniel.) Because US troops there are “fueling terror.” And if we could just “get” Osama bin Laden, this whole terrorism thing would vanish overnight. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Democrats want to redirect Bush’s policies so the ...
Iraq, War on Terror, Jihad, Militant Islam, Saddam Hussein, Election, Democrats, Moonbats
I admit I was half-convinced Saddam was going to walk: Iraqi tribunal sentences Saddam to hang. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, ...
A verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein is expected within hours: Saddam to hear fate, Iraq in tense lockdown. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With Saddam Hussein hours from learning whether he will hang, Iraq’s government imposed curfews on Sunday and has canceled army leave, fearing the historic trial verdict might trigger ...
An Arabic-speaking blogger who has been translating Iraqi documents from the DOD web site has some very interesting remarks about the New York Times/IAEA election hit; he has been trying to get the IAEA to answer questions about his findings on Saddam’s nuclear plans since early October: On October 5th 2006 ...
New York Times, Media Bias, War on Terror, Iraq, Election, IAEA
With all the attention currently focused on the New York Times’ article about Iraqi nuclear documents, a smaller controversy is flying under the radar—another terrorist’s op-ed in a major American newspaper, by Hamas shill Ahmed Yousef, again without crucial context to help people understand the deceptive Islamist agenda being promoted. ...
New York Times, Media Bias, War on Terror, Hamas, Propaganda