War on Terror
Andrew talked bin Laden and RIGOP House leadership on last night’s Matt Allen Show. Stream by clicking here, or download it. Andrew will also be on WRNI’s Political Roundtable tomorrow, airing somewhere around 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. and streamable online thereafter.
There’s been some conversation in the comment sections suggesting that there’s something contrary to American culture in street celebrations over Osama bin Laden’s death, particularly to the extent that they involved effigies and burning pictures. Acknowledgement that a milestone has been reached and justice meted in an individual case is certainly appropriate, but the attitude…
1. I’ve heard from several people the suggestion that the death of Osama bin Laden will boost troop morale. That may be the case, but I can’t help but see that as a bit of a shame. Over the past decade, our military has toppled governments, routed terrorist networks out of foreign cities, helped oppressed…
Osama bin Laden has been killed. The coward died a coward’s death, hiding behind a woman. Thanks to the dogged determination of our men and women in the armed services and intelligence agencies–in places from the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to Guantanamo–and thanks to our political leaders who continued the hunt no matter the…
So, as Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice headed toward the climactic “you’re fired” of tonight’s episode, NBC periodically killed the sound to play a jingle and run ticker text about a pending important message from President Obama. The actual interruption came right as the show built up to a crest. Apparently, Osama bin Laden has been…
From the Wall Street Journal. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday announced that he had transferred to the Defense Department for military trial the cases against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al Hawsawi, accused of key roles in planning the Sept. 11 attacks. The decision reversed…
It appears that Mark Steyn has returned to his seat in the battleship National Review: A decade on, Kosovo is a sorta sovereign state, and in Frankfurt a young airport employee is so grateful for what America did for his people that he guns down U.S. servicemen while yelling “Allahu akbar!” The strange shrunken spectator…
Although National Review has made the onerous decision to stop providing free access to an online edition of the print magazine to subscribers who receive the print magazine, an essay in the December 20 issue by former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security Stewart Baker expresses a perspective worth considering. Describing…
Whenever I express concerns about the odd and threatening behavior of such regimes as that currently ruling Iran, our comment sections become host to statements of blame-America relativism. No doubt, the same will prove true upon my posting this bit of news from the benighted region: A Christan pastor in Iran has been sentenced to…
Andrew McCarthy has responded to Kevin Williamson’s argument against President Obama’s approval of assassinating al Qaeda figure and American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, which I mentioned here. As he typically does, McCarthy makes a strong argument, but I think the sides in the dispute might be circling around the ground that might lead to accord. One…
