War on Terror
With H/T to Instapundit, never forgetting means never forgetting about the true significance of 9/11. Jennifer Rubin has more on the growing and deliberate amnesia. We are at war and Obama is in denial. More here, here, and here, too. In addition, Obama’s parallel tendency to undermine our historical allies is driving changed behaviors by…
I’ve been meaning to note Clifford May’s brief history of the end of the war in Iraq: The news is not that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities. The news is that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in victory – rather than in defeat. Two years ago at this time, few in…
“Girls With Guns Get It” (H/T): In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army and Marines found it useful to send a female soldier along on raids, as it was less disruptive to have a woman search the female civilians. There was no shortage of volunteers for this duty. The marines, as is their custom,…
As Ralph Peters writes, “Our effort in Iraq passed a major milestone today: Our troops are leaving the cities.” For whatever reason (um, dare I say victory?), interest in Iraq has waned since it collapsed as a viable anti-you-know-who talking point. But progress has been made and now we can safely return Iraq’s cities to…
Somehow the Washington Post, via the mouth of U.S. News and World Report‘s Alex Kingsbury manages to pull pro-lifers and free-marketers under the same umbrella as Islamic radicals as a means of retroactively absolving Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano of the need for embarrassment over her department’s politically motivated report warning of pending right-wing terrorism:…
Pointy-headed intellectual concepts too often become excuses to float above practical reality. Consider: There is a technical term for this phenomenon. The GWOT acted as what, in the language of semiotics, is called a “floating signifier,” able to be attached at will to a wide range of actions and policies. The Bush administration organized the…
This story confounds categorization: Eastern District of Michigan judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff handed down the decision, in a case involving an alleged violation of the constitutional separation of church and state. The issue is whether a government-owned company, AIG, can market sharia-compliant insurance products. (To be sharia-compliant, an investment vehicle must be created and structured…
Whether voiced by Democrats or Republicans (and both have), this sort of talk has got to be getting nauseating for anybody who’s paid even passing attention during the past few decades: Obama administration officials argue that this unpopularity has hindered the United States’ ability to achieve its goals. “Our image in the world, particularly in…
Growing up in the ’80s, with all of the romanticizing of the ’60s that was fashionable, then, I thought it pleasantly discordant to hear George Harrison describe his disappointment in the Beatles’ visit to Haight-Ashbury, where the big scene consisted of “a bunch of spotty teenagers” (or something close thereto). Less pleasant was learning, some…
So reports Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff in a fascinating article posted last Thursday. (H/T Newsbusters.) The decision was announced during an off-the-record meeting that President Obama held last Wednesday with some disgruntled supporters. Administration officials organized the session just a few days [prior], summoning the leaders of groups such as Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First,…
