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Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]
Continue reading...Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists
Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Let’s imagine we’ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, à la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: Which Iraq War Do You Want To End?
Published Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:32 pm
When people say that they want to end the war in Iraq, I always want to ask them which war they mean. There are currently at least three wars, along with several subconflicts, being fought on Iraqi soil. The first, tragically, is the battle for mastery between Sunni and Shiite. The second is the campaign [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: Fighting the “Real” Fight
Published Monday, August 13, 2007 at 8:14 pm
The founder of al-Qaida in Mesopotamia was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who we can now gratefully describe as “the late.” The first thing to notice about him is that he was in Iraq before we were. The second thing to notice is that he fled to Iraq only because he, and many others like him, had [...]
Continue reading...Michael Yon: Al Qaeda is guilty of monstrosities in Iraq – no matter what anyone says
Published Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 10:10 am
Al Qaeda is in Iraq, intentionally inflaming sectarian hostilities, deliberately pushing for full scale civil war. They do this by launching attacks against Shia, Sunni, Kurds and coalition forces. To ensure the attacks provoke counterattacks, they make them particularly gruesome. Five weeks ago, I came into a village near Baqubah with American and Iraqi soldiers. [...]
Continue reading...Opinion Journal: Crocker and Petraeus speak some truths, if Senators are listening.
Published Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 7:11 am
Nobody claims the Iraqi government is a model of democratic perfection, or that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is the second coming of Lincoln. We advised the White House not to lobby against his predecessor. But Mr. Maliki’s government is democratic and more inclusive than most reporting suggests, and it is fighting for its life against [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
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