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COIN Blues
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:45 AM
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I wish I agreed with Dick Cheney but I don't. How could I? He, along with the rest of the conservative... |
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On Julian Assange and Wikileaks
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 6:45 AM
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On October 2, 2016, around the tenth anniversary of Julian Assange's remarkable online publishing venture Wikileaks, source of ten million authentic, notably government documents known as "secrets" to us mere citizens, I posted a compilation of writings on same under the headline, "Wikileaks at Ten Years: Populism's Lucky Break."
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Missing Islam
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Diana West
Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:51 AM
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US Army soldier at Saddam Mosque, Al Zarai, Iraq, 2008 / DVIDS photo.
Four months ago, when "Iraq" first popped up as an... |
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Who Will Answer for COIN?
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Diana West
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:58 AM
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America has a new and, thankfully, living Medal of Honor winner -- Kyle White -- whose bravery is now part of the annals of military history. The battle... |
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Year-Ender: COIN's Casualties Must Be Reckoned With
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 8:39 AM
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On August 2, 2012, while many millions of Americans were either on, refreshed from or perhaps contemplating their summer vacation, Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Sitton and another US soldier stepped on an IED in a mine-riddled field in Afghanistan. They were both... |
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The Petraeus-Kagans-COIN-Complex
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:12 AM
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Long frontpage takeout taking out the Kagans today in the Washington Post. The so-what-else-is-news headline -- "Civilians Held Petraeus' Ear in War Zone" -- almost caused me not to read it, given this obvious fact has driven so many posts and columns... |
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Fox News: The Latest to Hop into Bed with Petraeus
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Thursday, December 06, 2012 6:43 PM
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And I didn't even mention Prince Talal bin Alwaleed's stake in News Corp....
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This week's syndicated column:
No doubt in the spirit of the season, somebody bestowed an audio sweetmeat upon Bob Woodward of the Washington Post – 13-plus minutes of an off-the-record conversation that took place in spring 2011 between Gen. David Petraeus, then ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) commander in Afghanistan, and Fox News analyst K.T. McFarland, who was visiting Petraeus’ Kabul HQ.
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Prisoner of COIN
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Monday, May 14, 2012 4:06 AM
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From today's New York Times, a story about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the lone American POW in Afghanistan. We still don't know the circumstances under which he was captured in 2009, but we do know something about his outlook on the counterinsurgency (COIN) disaster... |
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Kajaki: COIN Central
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:08 AM
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Click "read more" to see DoD video from Kajaki Sofla bazaar, November 2011. Don't miss the motorcycles whizzing by, a chilling prefiguring of last week's suicide bomb attack.
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Is COIN Fantasy Worth the Real-World Cost?
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Diana West
Friday, September 23, 2011 3:30 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Only the U.S. military could build a defensive wall of words -- "dismounted complex blast injury" (DCBI) -- around the bare fact that single, double, triple, even quadruple amputations are up sharply among U.S. forces on foot patrol in Afghanistan. So are associated pelvic, abdominal and genital injuries, according to a newly released report.
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The COIN-bots Strike Again
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Saturday, August 06, 2011 3:21 PM
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As we mourn the loss of 30 US servicemen in Afghanistan today, among them members of beloved SEAL Team Six, the nature of the mission that they have been on, and that all of their fellow forces in the ISAF coalition have been on for nearly a decade, must come... |
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The Tunnel Vision of the COIN-bots
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Saturday, August 06, 2011 6:16 AM
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Marine BG John Toolan: More stuff for Afghans ... or else.
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At the very end of this story lies the money quote on the thunking bankruptcy, military and political, of the American strategy in Afghanistan. It is the bankruptcy of Petraeus-McChrystal-Bush-Obama-Petraeus... |
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COIN Is Dhimmitude
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Diana West
Friday, July 22, 2011 4:00 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
This week, the madness of the counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN), which drives the war in Afghanistan, reached new heights -- or depths -- as revealed by two news stories.
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Time to COIN Another Strategy -- Now
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Diana West
Friday, April 15, 2011 1:01 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Reading about another catastrophically maimed casualty of the counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) in Afghanistan, I was struck by a biographical note. This young American, now a triple amputee after stepping on an IED... |
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Afghanistan Poker
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Diana West
Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:41 AM
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US Army 2nd Lt. Stephen Petraeus, Wardak Province, A-stan, September 2010: Now we know -- what?
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Some fireworks at Gen. Petraeus's appearance before Congress yesterday. I would like to see the plain, unadorned transcript but so far all I... |
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What Do You Get When You Mix Rose Petals, Pentagon Brass and Too Many Cups of Tea?
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Saturday, January 29, 2011 4:26 AM
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Mark Durie has a must-read article today -- "Aslim Taslam, Three Cups of Tea and Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws" -- which flags the phenomenon of Pakistani Christians converting to Islam to protect themselves and their children from the nation's blasphemy laws. "Blasphemy" -- crossing or critiquing Islam in any way -- is a capital offense in fabulous "ally" Pakistan, as many Americans are now finally learning. So, in paying out billion$ a year to Pakistan, mostly Christian Americans are also in effect subsidizing such blasphemy laws.
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The Problem with COIN (I Think) or: 沃勒斯坦：在世界萧条中无可选择
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Diana West
Friday, August 20, 2010 3:48 AM
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Word about COIN seems to be getting around:
某些行动确实采取了。拉姆斯菲尔德让布什总统解除了职务。拉姆斯菲尔德最强大的辩护人副总统切尼，其影响力输给了国务卿康多莉扎·赖斯和拉姆斯菲尔 德的继任罗伯特·盖茨，后者倡导更“温和”的观点，强调运用外交手段。新军事战略突然之间获得了支持，即反叛乱[counter- insurgency]（用缩 COIN表示）。它是由先前不知名的军官戴维·彼得雷乌斯[David Petraeus]提出来的。
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Four-Star Heaven
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:58 AM
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Catchy cover story by Mehdi Hasan in the British weekly the New Statesman.
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The COIN Nightmare Continues
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Diana West
Friday, June 25, 2010 1:46 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
So Gen. Stanley McChrystal lost his job. Does it matter?
Aside from the fact that with Wednesday's announcement the nation's capital could finally exhale for the first time since news broke about the profanity-laced... |
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Dear Contentions
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Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:08 AM
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While we're on the subject, I think today is as good a day as any to post a letter I emailed last Wednesday to Commentary magazine's blog Contentions, where Max Boot posts amok. I had hoped for some form of a public correction attesting to my reportorial... |
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What Next, A Surge of Nation-Building in Yemen?
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Diana West
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:08 AM
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The Washington Post reports:
Thousands of Somali boys and teenagers fleeing war and chaos at home are sailing to Yemen, where officials ... now worry that the arrivals could become the next generation of Al-Qaeda fighters.
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The Story of Pfizer Jake
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Sunday, January 09, 2022 11:18 AM
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Boy, did Robert Kennedy Jr. ever strip Jake Tapper down to his corporate skivvies, exposing the CNN anchor as the naked shill for Big Pharma that he is.
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Q&A With Journalist & Documentary Maker Joel Gilbert
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Monday, October 26, 2020 10:14 AM
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There is a coercive genius to the Black Lives Matter movement. Seven years after forming "in response" to the acquittal of a Hispanic civil rights activist and Obama supporter named George Zimmerman, who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in self-defense, this Marxist-led organization has emerged at the forefront of a brainwashing campaign that has caused masses of Americans to embrace mob rule over law and order, racial strife over patriotism, lies over facts, and to develop a deep and abiding hatred of themselves and their country. How? By turning every statistically rare shooting of a black man by police into "another Trayvon," regardless of the circumstances around each shooting -- and regardless of the circumstances around Trayvon.
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Changes at Epoch Times
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Diana West
Friday, May 22, 2020 11:48 AM
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This is a post for "family" -- readers of this blog, and especially longtime readers of this blog, who will be able to hearken... |
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Is Seeking the Truth a Human Right?
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Diana West
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 8:27 AM
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Earlier today, Bill Browder, American-born British billionaire and also grandson of the notorious CPUSA leader Earl Browder, posted the above picture on Twitter from inside a conference on "human rights challenges" at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Hosted by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the conference was billed as an "international hearing" into the death of Browder's longtime accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, in Russian state custody. Browder's tweet reads: "Magnitsky denial filmmaker complaining how unfairly he's been treated in his ambitions to spread FSB version that Magnitsky wasn't murdered."
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Sangin 2015
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Diana West
Monday, December 21, 2015 7:36 AM
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US Marine marksman, Sangin district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 2011
Sangin is falling or has fallen.
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Strangers in Your Own Land
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Diana West
Monday, September 07, 2015 12:28 PM
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The city of Buda (today's Budapest) in the 15th century
You've heard of "redistribution of wealth." We are now watching in Europe something even more ghastly take shape.
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Question: What is "PC"?
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Diana West
Saturday, August 29, 2015 5:33 AM
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Answer: The Marxist mechanism that disconnects facts from conclusions to make war on our minds.
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Sex! Jack Boots! Trump!
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Diana West
Sunday, August 23, 2015 8:43 AM
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Their frustration is palpable. All those sparkling, witty gambits by conservative pundits to denigrate Trump supporters -- as, for example, when National... |
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Who Is To Blame?
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Diana West
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:21 AM
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The Blame Game is not a game. It is serious business, particularly at this point of implosion. We still have the capabilities to think and speak... |
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye
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Diana West
Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:40 PM
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Breaking: After more or less 15 years of continuous weekly newspaper syndication, I have just filed the final column... |
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Report from the Future: The Umma States of America
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Saturday, May 24, 2014 6:42 AM
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Imagine a curious soul or two in the not-too-distant future furtively peeling back the layers and learning the cruel truth: that their forbears willingly exchanged all of their precious liberties for tyranny rather than assess and educate and protect themselves against Islamic conquest -- violent, pre-violent, smooth, explosive, financial, political, kafiyya-wrapped or Armani-suited. I think they will marvel because, as they will so very tragically know first-hand, Islam is so simple: its culture of death, its oppression of women and non-Muslims, its defilement of children, its suppression of conscience, religion and speech. They will be astonished, also very angry, over the way free men and women in 20th-21st centuries saw fit, not to embark on emergency measures to ensure energy independence from Islamic oil, block Islamic immigration, and shield financial markets and academia from sharia-compliance, but rather to erect a massive and invasive security state that robbed all citizens of their liberties as they fiddled away the Islamic threat. Mustn't offend? Mustn't offend? That was more important than saving the blessed beauty of our lost civlization...?! Incredulously, they will learn how "public intellectuals" invented all manner of "division" within Islam, detected endless "signs" of "evolution" to come, supported disastrous "democracy" movements, diagnosed "moderation" ever-aborning, projecting all in a static of isms and ists that confounded and dumbfounded and confused. To be sure, it kept "public intellectuals" gainfully occupied, but it did nothing to stem the waves of conquest that made life in the West a sharia-compliant and, of course, post-Communist hell on earth. Obamacare Allahu Akbar.... |
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It's Really That Simple
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Diana West
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:50 AM
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Former Green Beret (including the Afghan War) and photojournalist Paul Avallone just sent me two of his photos emblazoned with a cut from a recent post of mine. My idea of a perfect collaborative effort -- thanks, Paul.
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Goodbye to All That -- Let's Hope
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Diana West
Sunday, December 29, 2013 4:58 AM
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Sgt. 1st Class Frank Limtiaco, left, exults as 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard leaves Afghanistan on December 28. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Eddie Siguenza/Released)
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My Last Syndicated Column of 2013
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:14 PM
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In the interest of tying up some loose ends, here are a few updates before the new year.
Principle, what principle?
Remember how 2013 began with much ado over Al Gore’s unseemly $500 million sale of Current TV network to Al Jazeera, aka “the Muslim Brotherhood channel”? Even anything-for-a-buck Time Warner Cable saw fit to drop the Qatar-owned “news” organization from its package. Well, TWC this month announced that, yes, it will be bringing Al Jazeera America into 55 million American homes after all. “Financial terms weren’t disclosed,” USA Today reported.
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Afghanistan: When Diminishing Returns Hit Rock Bottom
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Saturday, October 05, 2013 2:58 AM
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The good news is there are a mere 75 terrorist "operatives" left in all of Afghanistan.
The bad news is the US government wants our very special US Special Forces to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely to continue to hunt them.
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Warning: Historians at Work
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Monday, September 09, 2013 9:56 AM
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Air Force historian Eduard Mark, now deceased, wrote a paper in 1998 linking the codename "19" in KGB cable 812 from the Venona archive to Harry Hopkins.
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Another Terrorist Attack, Another Saudi Cover-Up?
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Friday, April 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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Abdulrahman Ali Al-Harbi with Azzam with Saudi diplomat Azzam bin Abdel Karim in a Boston hospital
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Even as our focus remains on the manhunt for the second Chechen suspect, this Saudi story still simmers ....
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David Petraeus: No Worries
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Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:31 AM
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CNN reports that David Petraeus will make his first public appearance since resigning in multi-varied if only partly limned states of disgrace, all overshadowed by L'Affaire Broadwell. He will deliver a speech this month at a dinner honoring the military.
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Drones, Due Process and Us
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Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:10 AM
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Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor formidable and, bonus, great friend of mine, has weighed in on the Rand Paul filibuster at NRO and finds it so much misguided theatrics. Further, he describes what I see as Paul's electric efforts to focus attention on executive overreach and obfuscation as a "crusade to have the Constitution ban a bogeyman of [Paul's] own making."
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Brennan: Jihad Apologist to Lead Fight Against It?
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Friday, February 15, 2013 4:38 AM
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This week's syndicated column
We all know what happens when the fox guards the chicken coop – or do we?
This is not a rhetorical question. Do we Americans understand what happens when a wily predator is custodian of defenseless clucks? Our state of psychological disarmament makes us unable to recognize even such an obvious threat. I can’t think of another explanation for why the country hasn’t melted down the Capitol switchboard with phone calls to U.S. senators beseeching them not to confirm John Brennan as the next director of the CIA.
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About Chuck Hagel and US Foreign Policy
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Friday, February 01, 2013 7:51 AM
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About Chuck Hagel.
Watching yesterday's morning session of his Senate confirmation hearings on C-SPAN made me nothing if not uneasy. There are, I have to confess, aspects of Hagel's foreign policy that intersect with my own beliefs: those that stem from his apparently sincere drive not to see US troops wasted in foreign interventions that have nothing to do with American interests. I am alarmed, however, by his apparently visceral and unveiled attitudes toward Jews and Israel, which dovetail with the Arabist worldview.
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Hillary's Hearings
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Friday, January 25, 2013 5:20 AM
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Rounding out Hillary-week at this blog, this week's syndicated column:
One day, I hope, Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi hearings will stand as testament to the smoke-and-mirrors dangerousness of U.S. foreign policy, circa 2013 – both as executed by the... |
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SOS: Save Uncle Sam
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:24 AM
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The Wall Street Journal reports this week about a new draft handbook for US troops in Afghanistan designed to prevent their Afghan "partners" from... |
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Pickering's Red Flags
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Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:49 PM
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This week's syndicated column:
As we arrive at Election Day, some of the most crucial questions left unanswered about Benghazi are, in fact, the simplest. They are not “fog of war” questions. They are not questions rendered unanswerable by “conflicting... |
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Dear Mitt, Imagine Uncle Sam Were a Bain Client
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Monday, October 08, 2012 6:19 AM
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Dear Mitt,
I know you're a busy man. But this foreign policy needs some more time and thought on your part, and before your next debate with Obama.
It's not that O's a foreign policy genius; he's not. It's not that his foreign policy is good;... |
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Explosive Update: The Smolensk Crash
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:13 AM
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A long overdue update on the Smolensk airplane "accident" that destroyed the heart of the pro-Western Polish leadership in April 2010 on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of 20,000 Polish officers known as the Katyn Forest Massacre.... |
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The Army Response to SSG Sitton
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Sunday, September 23, 2012 5:15 AM
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Army chief of staff Odierno's so-called response to SSG Sitton's letter is below.
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A Nation Betrayed
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Friday, September 21, 2012 4:03 AM
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SSG Matthew Sitton (1986-2012)
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Fire General Allen
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Diana West
Friday, August 24, 2012 4:32 AM
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One word for General John R. Allen's recent explanation for the spate of Afghan murders of our men is despicable. Ramadan fasting,... |
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Spiking the Examiner
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Saturday, July 28, 2012 6:32 AM
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News flash: The Washingon Examiner spiked my syndicated column on the Muslim Brotherhood and why five House Republicans -- Reps. Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney and Lynn Westermoreland -- were correct to call on Inspectors... |
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Outing the Muslim Brotherhood
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:20 PM
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This week's syndicated column:
Be alarmed: The U.S. government continues to be “advised by organizations and individuals that the U.S. government itself has identified in federal courts as fronts for the international Muslim Brotherhood.”
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US-Turkey-Chaired Counterterrorism Forum Dumps Israel
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Diana West
Friday, July 13, 2012 8:11 AM
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Hillary and Erdogan, together, in Istambul: Today, the CT Forum; tomorrow, the umma!
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This week's column:
The Washington Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from a U.S.-sponsored organization called the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, U.S. undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, delivered a speech titled "Victims of Terrorism," but, in her roll call of victims, she didn't mention Israel. The conference at which she spoke was described as a "high-level conference on the victims of terrorism," but Israel wasn't a participant.
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Dependence or Independence: Election 2012
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Friday, July 06, 2012 1:12 PM
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This week's syndicated column:
After nearly four days without power following the freak storm that left millions in the mid-Atlantic states in the dark, one thing I could do when the electricity came back on was try to figure out who coined the... |
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Out of Order
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Monday, July 02, 2012 10:27 AM
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Not all that long after the Supremes decimated sovereignty and self-government with knockout-blow-rulings on Arizona and Obamacare, and the State Department issued a visa to a member of Egypt's Islamic Group, a massive storm knocked out the power and phones... |
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Help SFC Walter Taylor
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Friday, June 15, 2012 6:01 AM
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One day, we may look back on the criminal charges the Army has brought against SFC Walter Taylor as the very worst abuse of prosecutorial... |
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Uncle $ucker, Karzai & His Capos
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:56 AM
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Would this man lie?
No -- better question: How will we feel if/when we find out we wasted all that blood and treasure standing up a Hezb-i-Islami government in Afghanistan?
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Sacrificing Marines for the "Greater Good"?
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Friday, March 09, 2012 5:54 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
This week, a bombshell wrapped in an SOS landed on the desk of the inspector general at the Pentagon.
The SOS was a legal complaint from attorney Mark L. Waple. It called for an investigation into whether the Marine Corps was attempting to drive Waple's client, Marine Corps Maj. Fred C. Galvin, from the service through what is known as a "board of inquiry" in retribution for Galvin's legally protected communications with Congress regarding an incident last year in Afghanistan. Such a reprisal, Waple charges, would violate the Military Whistleblower Protection Act.
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In Jihad We Trust
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Saturday, March 03, 2012 6:14 AM
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The AP reports:
A trend of Afghan treachery that has taken the lives of six American troops over the past week is poisoning a key ingredient in the international coalition's formula for winding down the decade-long war: trust.
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The New "Twinkie Defense"
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Monday, January 23, 2012 7:21 AM
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Flash:
KABUL: An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops says he did it because of a recent video showing US Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban insurgents, security sources say.
The attack on the soldiers, who were unarmed, happened last week at a base in eastern Afghanistan and left 15 other French troops wounded, eight of them seriously.
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Get Set for a Wallow
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:34 AM
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Granted, it's not civil, acceptable, palace etiquette or, more important, US military doctrine to urinate on battle-killed enemy fighters -- in this case,... |
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From the Vault 5: Looking Back on Iraq
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:23 PM
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This journal entry is less than a year old, but I think it documents the scant essence of what is considered arguable about Iraq to this day: logistics and tactics -- anything but the doomsday flaw, the false, ideological premise that the US... |
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The Rich Fantasy World of the Iraq War Hawks
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Friday, December 16, 2011 11:37 AM
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This week's column:
I wish I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial and the heights of delusion manifested in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan's latest declarations on Iraq, published this week in The Washington Post as "opinion."
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The View from the Tower
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Monday, December 12, 2011 5:28 AM
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If I were a psychiatrist I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial or the heights of delusion that manifest themselves in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan's latest declarations on Iraq published in the Washington Post as "opinion." "Fantasy" is... |
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Uncle Sam Wants You ... to Know Which Way to Mecca
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Friday, November 04, 2011 6:24 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan – populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist... |
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US Marines: No Spitting Toward Mecca
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:47 AM
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Gen. David Petraeus, Col. David Furness, and Shafiq Mubarak (far right). Mubarak served as Furness's "right hand" during a recent deployment. "I can't do anything without him," Furness said.
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First Amendment, Schmirst Amendment
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Friday, October 21, 2011 8:34 AM
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Sahar Aziz just knows the clever Obama Justice Department's civil rights attorneys can come up with a way to redefine criticism of Islam as racial discrimination. Assistant Attorney General for civil rights Thomas Perez has "some very concrete thoughts" on... |
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Is COP Margah Another COP Keating Waiting to Happen?
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Monday, August 15, 2011 5:47 AM
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Gen. Petraeus bestowing medals at COP Margah on the Afghan border with Pakistan in October 2010
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The Only Murder Here Was of Justice
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Friday, August 05, 2011 2:49 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
They are the forgotten warriors of the Iraq War, the men whose lives and families and careers blew up in "murder" charges on a vicious battlefield, the pieces coming down in Fort Leavenworth's military prison where the... |
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Petraeus Always Gets a Pass
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Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:01 AM
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ISAF caption: Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Afghanistan's National Security Advisor, and General Petraeus discuss the importance of reducing... |
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Petraeus Watch
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Monday, July 11, 2011 5:08 AM
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Gen David Petraeus: "No country has suffered more from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida than Afghanistan."
That comment from a June interview with Military Times stopped me cold. Partly, it was the pat sweep of the superlative. But it was also the gratuitousness of the flip-side demotion of the American experience and sacrifice. The catastrophic terror attacks of 9/11 on our political and economic centers caused and still cause quite a lot of suffering, and they were just the beginning of a decade-long American crack-up, a self-ignited meltdown of reason and judgment that blinded us to the markers of the classical jihad in progress, causing us to set foundationally flawed policies accordingly, from war (COIN) to energy (dependence) from immigration (unprotected borders) to "outreach" (Muslim Brotherhood penetration). Blinkered, our strategists have spent billions and billions of dollars to send infidel armies to the umma to win "hearts and minds" (impossible) at a cost of thousands of young lives and tens of thousands of wounds, many lifelong, both physical and psychological. These cause quite a lot of suffering, too.
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Will Congress Ever Do Anything About the Afghanistan $candal?
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Friday, April 29, 2011 7:04 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Even before the carnage inside Kabul airport was sorted and identified, before the squads of sober officers were deployed to inform stateside next of kin, and before the caskets were filled, closed, and draped with flags for the final flight home, this much we knew: Another Afghan Muslim "partner" in uniform -- a veteran Air Force pilot -- had opened fire on NATO trainers in a meeting, killing eight U.S. military personnel and an American contractor.
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US Military: Schizophrenia Is the New Normal
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:54 AM
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The caption on this EPA photo is: "Afghan Army soldiers secure the military base after a shooting incident." The killer of nine NATO troops and a contractor was an Afghan Air Corps officer. Is the base secure?
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Three Cups of Snake Oil
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:16 AM
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The Three Cups of Tea scandal keeps getting bigger.
Best-selling writer Jon Krakauer has published his own 75-page expose, Three Cups of Deceit (download here), which includes an account of how he, Krakauer, was taken to the cleaners as a donor... |
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Three's a Crowd
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Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:21 AM
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Busy Saturday in A-stan.
To the east, an Afghan Army suicide bomber murdered five NATO soldiers and five Afghans. The Taliban claimed credit.
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Let Afghanistan Go, 2011
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Friday, April 08, 2011 12:00 PM
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Back in April 2009, I wrote a column, based around an interview with Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.), called "Let Afghanistan Go." Almost two years later to the day, here, once more with feeling, is this week's column:
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Missing the Point on Iraq
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:06 AM
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Haven't read Rumsfeld's book, but I did read a rebuttal by Dan Senor and Roman Martinez in the Wash Post this week in which they argue over what went wrong in Iraq. Rummy says it was poor planning in a too-long CPA-led aftermath; they say it was Rummy's... |
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The Show Trial of Lars Hedegaard
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Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:16 AM
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Danish justice?
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Lars Hedegaard, the President of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society will be tried in Danish court on January 24 for "racism" -- a charge "worthy" of a communist show trial effort to quell dissent. The dissent in this case is speaking out in any form against the dictatorship of the multiculturalists whose goal above all is the subversion of truth and liberty in exchange for stability, for accommodation, for appeasement of the "peaceful" advance of a new order -- in our time, Islam in the West. Hedegaard, symbolically, stands in its way, and must be punished, literally, to discourage others. What they don't realize is that regardless of the verdict, Hedegaard's example inspires others with his strength. Denmark's judicial charade -- like Holland's and Austria's and others -- only exposes the moral weakness of these states' attempts to undermine the courage and resilience of their best citizens.
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Who Keeps the Faith?
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 3:58 AM
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This year's final column:
I end the year with a question and one last outrage.
The U.N. believes about 1 million Afghans between the ages of 15 and 64 - roughly 8 percent of the population -- are addicted to drugs. The publication Development... |
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Child Rapists, Pedophiles and "Respect"
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Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:34 AM
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Seventy-two percent of "southern Afghan males" believe "foreigners are disrespectful of their religion and culture." Why is that percentage so low?
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Meanwhile, Back in Iraq ...
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Monday, December 06, 2010 2:47 AM
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The State Department has a new job: Clear, hold and build -- inside the Baghdad Embassy complex.
The next time someone tells you about the lasting victory in Iraq George W. Bush, COIN, and Gen. Petraeus secured, could you please pull out the following... |
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Sangin: Epicenter of US Government Dementia
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:42 PM
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What an odd headline the AP chose today: "In Afghan cauldron, realism can trump rulebook." Should be more like: "In Afghan cauldron, insanity can and does trump reality."
The insanity is the US COIN reality. Having lost the battle for hearts... |
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JCC Mullen: "Trust" Is All You Need
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Sunday, October 03, 2010 4:39 PM
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In January 2009. Adm. Mike Mullen -- he who failed to present and then sabotaged a non-COIN Afghan war plan for the POTUS, says Woodward -- wrote that our problem in Afghanistan (after seven years of American sacifice to ward off Taliban depredations against "the people") is that the US hadn't yet won Afghan trust.
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Eyeless in A-Stan
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Friday, August 06, 2010 3:18 AM
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This week's column:
"Live our values," Gen. David Petraeus wrote recently to troops in Afghanistan. "This is what distinguishes us from our enemies."
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Desperately Seeking a Wedge in A-Stan
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:58 AM
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From the Wall Street Journal:
"Petraeus Sharpens Afghan Strategy"
WASHINGTON—Gen. David Petraeus plans to ramp up the U.S. military's troop-intensive strategy in Afghanistan, according to some senior military officials, who have concluded... |
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Overdue GOP Reckoning
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:17 AM
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Ann Marlowe of the Hudson Institute considers "the war over the war" among Republicans sparked by Michael Steele, arguing we're due for a belated "reckoning" on controversial if prevailing counterinsurgency policy. She also cites recent comments by Newt Gingrich on the cultural disjunction between us and Afghans that is at the flawed heart of the matter.
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Perry Mason Goes to Afghanistan
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Monday, July 19, 2010 11:04 AM
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For actual years now, I've been writing that the foundational fallacy of COIN, whether in Iraq or Afghanistan, is that success depends not on what American forces do, but on how alien peoples react to what American forces have done.
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Steele's Trap and Petraeus' "Human Terrain"
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Friday, July 09, 2010 2:30 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
I've sworn off predictions, having guessed wrong that a deeply apologetic Gen. Stanley McChrystal would keep his Afghanistan command. But what about GOP chairman Michael Steele? So far, at least as I write, he is... |
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Petraeus Flashback: Shying Away from Hearts and Minds
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:19 AM
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Ruth King of Ruthfully Yours sent around this Washington Times piece by Rowan Scarborough that notes the apparent irony that "in less than three years, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus has risen from the brunt of ridicule by Democrats to President Obama's... |
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Updated: GOP Cracking?
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Saturday, July 03, 2010 11:50 AM
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele's comments on Afghanistan -- Afghanistan is a war of Obama's choosing, and if Obama is a student of histroy (who said?), he should know that you don't engage in a land war in Afghanistan -- have triggered calls for his resignation... |
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Getting Taken to the Afghan Cleaners
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Sunday, June 06, 2010 2:27 AM
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As the New York Times reports in airing another load of dirty US COIN laundry, Matiullah Khan charges $1,200 per NATO supply truck to travel 100 miles between Kandahar and Trin Cot without incident. Some toll booth business he's got going there.
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Kandahar Farmer on Taliban: "They Are Our Own People"
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Saturday, June 05, 2010 4:08 AM
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Contemplating the military objective of Kandahar, John Bernard has written an excellent essay at Let Them Fight pointing out, one more time, the mote in our leaders' eye, Islam, which no amount of COIN snake-oil can heal. He writes:
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Memorial
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Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:10 AM
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It so happens I recently received a copy of Betrayed from author Joseph D. Douglass, Jr, a national security scholar and consultant... |
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Happy Birthday, Michael Behenna
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Photo: Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna and his family
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Today is Michael Behenna's 27th birthday, which he is marking in military prison. He is there, wrongfully, unjustly, serving a 25 year prison sentence for, in essence, fighting the war in Iraq. Details at Defend Michael, the website his parents have set up on his behalf.
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Avallone: "Flirting with Afghanistan" 1
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Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:01 AM
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As promised, the first installment of "Flirting with Afghanistan: Dispatches from the Frontline." Text, photographs and captions by Paul Avallone.
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Questions No One Will Ask General McChrystal
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Friday, December 11, 2009 6:22 AM
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Last week, a friend of mine on the Hill invited me to suggest some questions for Gen. McChrystal prior to Tuesday's hearing. His invitation finally prompted this somewhat hasty list here (which prompted this not-to-be-missed Marine vet's list here).
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What If We Had Fought the Nazis the Way We Are Fighting the Taliban?
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Friday, December 04, 2009 6:10 AM
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In refining and repacking (for size) some of the "How Important Is Marjeh?" material for this week's column, I came to a new definition of "counterinsurgency" (below). It's worth emphasizing how very important our understanding of "counterinsurgency" is. Why, just today, Charles Krauthammer points out that "the 2009 U.S. military [is] the finest counterinsurgency force in history."
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On the Level
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:32 AM
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When I first saw this image of the $100 American Eagle Platinum coin posted at View from the Right, I did think it might turn out to be a hoax, which... |
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Tammany-stan
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:11 PM
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Let's Make a Deal: Afghans register on Oct. 14 at the first Afghan Business Conference to learn how to bid for military contracts in Helmand Province.
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Happy International Free Press Day
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:31 AM
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Four years ago today, a small Danish newspaper named Jyllands-Posten printed a page (above) of cartoons of Islam's prophet Mohammed by twelve Danish artists. In so doing so, the newspaper was breaking multiple Islamic laws. But the newspaper, indeed, the country of Denmark, does not operate according to Islamic laws. This cultural, historical and legal fact was the very point of the publishing exercise.
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From Regensberg to Aida
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:57 AM
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In a triumph for "Palestinianism" -- which Bat Ye'or thumbnails as "a replacement theory whereby Palestine replaces Israel" (her complete definition here) -- Pope Benedict wholly swallowed and regurgitated the PA narrative in his disgracefully contextless lamentation over the separation fence Israel built to keep PA suicide bombers from exploding in Israel's grocery stores, cafes and buses.
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Cracking Islam
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:05 AM
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Somehow, this photograph of visitors examining the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum seems like an apt illustration to this PC-code-cracking essay by Israeli scholar... |
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Blame Game
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Monday, December 22, 2008 7:19 AM
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Not being one who likes to split the difference, I approach the outrage on the Right over Sunday's New York Times massive takeout on the complicity of the Bush administration in the subprime mortgage meltdown in an unfamiliar, possibly seasonal spirit of compromise.
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Obama: Looking Out for the Press
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:55 AM
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From today's Obama presser:
Q Thank you, Mr. President-elect.
First of all, given the situation here in Illinois, do you favor or oppose a special election to fill your vacancy? And secondly you told us, at your first press conference, after the election, that you were going to take a very hands-off approach to filling that spot.
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I'm Afraid It's Up to Us...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:23 AM
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...to do the heavy lifting for John McCain. And we couldn't even begin to try without spin-busting analysis like this from Andy McCarthy. (Don't miss the Obama-Ayers-Edward... |
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Yes or No to Islamization?
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:18 PM
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Photo: Belgian police arresting Filip Dewinter at a 2007 Brussels rally marking the 9/11 attacks on the US and protesting the Islamization of Europe.
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Et Tu, Denmark?
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:06 PM
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What does "Sprogbrug og Terrorbekæmpelse" mean in Danish?
"Self-Censorship as Dhimmitude."
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Welcome to the Forbidden Zone
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:51 AM
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Kathryn Lopez' Q&A with me this week at NRO probes places in The Death of the Grown-Up (the second, culminating half of the book) that the majority of reviewers... |
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"Monarch" of Peace
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Diana West
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:41 AM
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Diana West
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One phrase that always sticks in my craw is "the Saudi monarch." What monarchy is that--the House of Crude? The Kingdom of Jihad? If we called "King" Abdullah "the Saudi oil-igarch" instead of "the Saudi monarch" would we continue to bow and scrape and generally... |
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A Conversation with Michelle Malkin (II)
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Diana West
Monday, October 01, 2007 7:33 AM
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The conclusion of my book interview with Michelle Malkin is up at Hot Air. In this segment, we discuss the links between "the death of the grown-up" and the war we have yet to face up to against expansionist Islam, which, even peacefully, is always accompanied... |
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