Posts tagged as: Iraq War

Rehabilitating Scott Ritter

Rehabilitating Scott Ritter

The New York Times’ too-generous portrait of a conspiracy theorist and sex offender.

Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran

Obama’s Christmas Gift to Iran

Why the Islamic Republic will be emboldened by the retreat from Iraq.

R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens

R.I.P.  Christopher Hitchens

The very model of the non-academic “man of ideas.”

A Good Progressive War

A Good Progressive War

What opponents of the Iraq war think a good war looks like.

U.S. curtails use of airstrikes in assault on Marja – washingtonpost.com

U.S. curtails use of airstrikes in assault on Marja – washingtonpost.com

MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — To the Marines of Bravo Company, the black-and-white video footage from a surveillance drone seemed to present the perfect shot: more than a dozen armed insurgents exiting a building and heading to positions to attack U.S. and Afghan forces seeking to wrest control of this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Facing stiff [...]

Jeffrey Goldberg: Leon Wieseltier, Andrew Sullivan and Anti-Semitism – The Atlantic

Jeffrey Goldberg: Leon Wieseltier, Andrew Sullivan and Anti-Semitism – The Atlantic

Here are a couple of observations about Leon and Andrew, based on a more careful reading of Leon’s piece, and a look back at some of Andrew's greatest hits. 1 I don’t mean this as a cop-out, but Chait says much of what I would say, but better. 2 Like Chait, I don’t believe that [...]

John Murtha dies at 77 – POLITICO.com

John Murtha dies at 77 – POLITICO.com

Rep. John Murtha, a Vietnam veteran who became one of the most powerful members of the House serving four decades representing western Pennsylvania, has died at 77.Murtha was the longest serving member of the Pennsylvania delegation — a milestone he passed just this past Saturday. He had been hospitalized in recent weeks with a gall [...]

Obama: Bank Bailout “Necessary,” Iraq War “Dumb”

Obama: Bank Bailout “Necessary,” Iraq War “Dumb”

Are we sure the bank baillout was a success?

Spencer: Opening the Door to a Stealth Jihadist

Spencer: Opening the Door to a Stealth Jihadist

In Human Events today I discuss the opening of America’s doors to the slick and crafty Tariq Ramadan: Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, often…

Bible quotes on gun sights — it’s a Crusade!

Bible quotes on gun sights — it’s a Crusade!

Well, now that we know that some genius put Bible quotes on gun sights, the whole misbegotten enterprise in Afghanistan is revealed as a Crusade after all — isn’t it? Sure — if you already believed it was a Crusade. Islamic jihadists have always been intent upon characterizing their opponents…



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