Tag Archive | "War on terror"
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...Judea Pearl: When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?
Published Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Mr. Carter appeals to the sponsors of suicide bombing. “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Outreach, Yes. Apology, No.: We’ve Never Been Islam’s Enemy
Published Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:20 am
The WaPo’s Charles Krauthammer comments on President Obama’s appearance on al-Arabiya TV: Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest [...]
Continue reading...Michael J. Totten: Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
Published Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:20 pm
While much of the world engages in hand-wringing, placard-waving, teeth-gnashing, and rocket-launching over Israel’s “disproportionate” response to Hamas attacks from Gaza, it’s worth looking at what the doctrines of “proportionality” actually say. Making the rounds is a two-year old quote from Lionel Beehner’s paper for the Council on Foreign Relations in which he summarizes the [...]
Continue reading...James Kirchick: Bush never lied to us about Iraq
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were [...]
Continue reading...‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.
Published Monday, June 9, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation [...]
Continue reading...David Gelernter: Defeat at Any Price
Published Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:57 am
It’s time for Americans to ask some big questions. Do leading Democrats want America to win this war? Have they ever? Of course not–and not because they are traitors. To leading Democrats such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Al Gore and John Edwards, America would be better off if [...]
Continue reading...Fouad Ajami: Iraqis of all sects report progress, not civil war
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:45 am
We were in Baghdad, and the sheikh gave me his narrative. There was both candor and evasion in the story he told. Al Qaeda and its Arab jihadists had found sanctuary and support in the Anbar; they had recruited the “criminal elements” and the “lowly,” they had brought zeal and bigotry unknown to the Iraqis. [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
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