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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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Respect and Admiral Mullen
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Diana West
Monday, January 11, 2010 5:46 AM
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Some of the most striking photojournalism to emerge from nearly a decade in Afghanistan was the 2006 New York Times Magazine story titled "The Bride Price." It was about Afghanistan's culture of child sex abuse in which very young girls are chattels to be "married" off (as permitted under Islamic law) and used to settle debts or make other payments.
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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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Why Does Obama Need 1.6 Billion Bullets?
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Diana West
Friday, March 15, 2013 3:14 AM
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Is that what a police car in small town America should look like?
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Dear Mainstream Media,
Back in 2008, candidate Barack Obama went off his teleprompter and added a couple of sentences to the text of a speech about expanding the Peace... |
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Sixty MInutes of Agit-Puff
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Diana West
Monday, January 28, 2013 6:41 AM
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From Sunday's 60 Minutes joint-interview of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
Steve Krofts: When we come back, the president and Secretary Clinton discuss the disaster in Benghazi and the state of her health.
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Year-Ender: COIN's Casualties Must Be Reckoned With
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Diana West
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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A Nation Betrayed
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Diana West
Friday, September 21, 2012 4:03 AM
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SSG Matthew Sitton (1986-2012)
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Below is an extraordinary, heart-stopping and historic letter. It... |
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In Jihad We Trust
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Diana West
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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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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Petraeus Always Gets a Pass
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Diana West
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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Congratulations, Bin Laden's Dead
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Diana West
Monday, May 02, 2011 3:24 AM
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Rejoice.
But.
The turd was killed in a mansion located in a "densely populated" area called Abbottabad, 30 miles outside Islamabad -- not in that dark, wet cave in the North West Territories where, it was often imagined, his only luxury would... |
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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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Diana West
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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Who Briefs This Man?
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Diana West
Monday, November 15, 2010 4:41 AM
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Let's assume Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, knows his way around a battleship. However, he clearly doesn't know his way through the Koran. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a fool of himself this past weekend at the Hoover Institution... |
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Hail to the Junta?
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Diana West
Friday, October 01, 2010 6:55 AM
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This week's syndicated column:
Bob Woodward's latest publishing event, "Obama's Wars," includes maybe the most significant scoop of his career: Directing not only Obama's wars, but also America's, is a veritable military junta.
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Deep Woodward
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Diana West
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:20 AM
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Serious Business: A face you can trust and a book you can buy
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Basic Training as Basic Submission
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Diana West
Sunday, August 22, 2010 6:50 AM
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Winning hearts and minds means losing your own. It involves teaching defenders of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to "respect" an Islamic tribal culture (as advocated by Admiral Mullen and other leaders) that... |
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Hearts, Minds, Anyone?
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Diana West
Monday, December 14, 2009 9:21 AM
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Ooo-hoo -- Jihadis! Who wants to join a shovel-ready cash-for-work program sponsored by the USA and thus put a strain on Taliban... |
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Gen. McChrystal, Meet Abu Qatada
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Diana West
Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:46 AM
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One overlooked nugget of pure gold from the Afghanistan assessment by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (what, is he still here?) appears in an article by Walter Pincus in today's Washington Post. Having determined that the failure to win Afghan "hearts... |
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Was "the Surge" a Band-Aid?
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Diana West
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:35 AM
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Well, was it? I have always feared that pumping additional troops into Iraq could achieve no more than stop-gap success because the strategic formula of the surge depended on triggering impossible Iraqi reactions to US-created security -- namely, what we took... |
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Great (Society) Power
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Diana West
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:14 AM
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Been re-reading Peter Braestrup's indispensable Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis... |
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Let Afghanistan Go
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Diana West
Saturday, April 25, 2009 6:31 AM
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This week's column takes in an interview with Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (USA ret.) about how we can axe the Afghan albatross and contain jihad terror at the same time.
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American Image
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Diana West
Monday, January 14, 2008 7:08 AM
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The Associated Press reports on Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs, and his views on Guatanamo Bay:
The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.... |
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