Will Obama meet with these leaders?
Naw… he’d rather meet with leaders of countries which sponsor terrorists.
Justice
What a great story… Anti-war lawyer keys a Marine’s car just before the Marine was to deploy to Iraq. He got caught. Here’s the background. And justice was sweet – read thru to the end of the article, and the first few comments… I just love a happy ending! Via Instapundit.
Morale – what’s the truth about our troops in Iraq?
Strategypage has a brief write-up about status of military recruitment efforts: In the last six months, the U.S. Army is seeing 15 percent more soldiers re-enlist than expected. This continues a trend that began in 2001. Every year since then, the rate at which existing soldiers have re-enlisted has increased. This despite the fact that [...]
News from the front lines
Michael Yon’s Frontline Forum is now available. I’ve followed Michael Yon’s dispatches from Iraq, he’s provided detailed information and insight into the daily heroism of our troops. The new Frontline Forum should be quite interesting. The Frontline Forum is an alternative channel for compelling stories from those now wearing boots and carrying rifles and not [...]
Shining the light on Saddam’s links to terror
A few weeks ago, I wrote about emerging evidence about Saddam Hussein’s links to terror training camps. New information about the impact of these links is discussed in an article by Thomas Joscelyn. THE REVELATION that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists has important ramifications for European counterterrorism efforts. According to officials, one [...]
What can we learn from history?
Bruce Thornton’s essay, Reflection on 1862, is a thought-provoking and well-written article. Unfortunately, historical perspective seems to be lacking in much of the critical coverage of the war on terror; rather, we seem to be fed a lot of hysterical perspective. Thornton shows that was also true for Lincoln and the US Civil War. History [...]
Is Osama bin Laden dead?
Michael Ledeen writes in National Review Online that Osama bin Laden died in mid-December and was buried in Iran. This will be great news if it can be confirmed.
Heroes
Bravery. Sacrifice. Courage. American heroes in 2005.
Speaking Truth to Power
Representative John Murtha has become the darling of the press and the Democratic Party for his continued criticism of the Iraq war and claims that our troops should be pulled out. Some have complimented him for “speaking truth to power” (see Speak Truth to Power, John Kerry’s Online Office, MyDD, and News Hounds). Representative Murtha [...]
Albright, Kennedy, Gore and Kerry, Liars?
The news I discussed below on the latest evidence of Saddam’s terrorist training camps provides an opportunity to ask if the leading critics of the Administration’s Iraq policy have been lying: “I never believed in the link between Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism,†former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright flatly declared [...]
Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
Stephen Hayes writes in the Weekly Standard on new information being gleaned from documents of Saddam Hussein’s regime seized in Iraq over the past few years. THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, [...]
A detailed and devastating case for the Patriot Act
The Power Line blog is one of my favorites. Today John Hinderaker responds to an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The editorial recycles the MSM trope about the horrors of the Patriot Act, and John’s rebuttal is wonderful. Read the whole thing: Power Line: Getting Specific About the Patriot Act