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In the News

'You can't armor your way out of this problem'

with John Abizaidvia Washington Post
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

On Aug. 3, 2005, the deadliest roadside bomb ever encountered by U.S. troops in Iraq detonated beneath a 26-ton armored personnel carrier, killing 14 Marines and revealing yet another American vulnerability in the struggle against improvised explosive devices...

Analysis and Commentary

Winning Ugly

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Monday, October 1, 2007

There is no need to review the now common judgment on the Iraqi war as a fiasco, quagmire, or “worst” something or other in American history...

In the News

Jewish power

with George P. Shultzvia Ha'aretz (Israel)
Monday, October 1, 2007

If in the past anti-Semitism was mostly religious (Christian) and racist (Nazi), now it ranges from neo-Nazism through Iranian Khomeinism to the margins of political hostility toward Israel...

In the News

Natural allies in a dangerous world

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Jerusalem Post
Monday, October 1, 2007

When I arrived here as a Christian visitor, I came with the conviction that an assault upon Jews is an implicit assault upon Christians, since it strikes at the root of the same ancient tree...

In the News

Nervous Gulf Hears Calmer Tones on Iran

with John Abizaidvia Associated Press
Monday, October 1, 2007

As the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East was leaving the Al-Jazeera television studios after an interview, one of the station managers shook his hand and joked: "Sir, you just made apartment prices jump in Dubai..."

In the News

A pragamatic admiral takes the helm as the US military's top officer

with John Abizaidvia Agence France-Presse
Sunday, September 30, 2007

The US military completes a leadership change Monday with the arrival of a pragmatic navy admiral to help steer it through the more-than-four-year-old war in Iraq...

In the News

U.S.'s own rhetoric toward Iran could use taming

with John Abizaidvia Newsday
Friday, September 28, 2007

One of the most unfortunate and unhelpful aspects of the United States' approach to foreign policy dilemmas is our tendency to demonize those who oppose our interests or our views....

In the News

Al Qaeda on the ropes?

with John Abizaidvia Washington Times
Friday, September 28, 2007

Osama bin Laden "is a man on the run, from a cave, who is virtually impotent other than the tapes" he releases from time to time...

In the News

Iran: As Tensions Rise, So Does Rhetoric

with John Abizaidvia Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
Friday, September 28, 2007

To any reader of the English-language blogosphere, September appeared destined to be the month of the Iran war media blitz...

In the News

19,000 Iraqi Insurgents Killed Since '03

with John Abizaidvia CBS News
Thursday, September 27, 2007

The U.S. military learned its lesson the hard way in Vietnam: Bragging about how many enemies it kills is not a very good way of keeping up homefront support for an unpopular war...

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