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Benghazi Burns and Petraeus Goes to Princeton?
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Friday, October 12, 2012 12:52 AM
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David Petraeus accepting the James Madison Medal at Princeton, 2010
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Updated: Petraeus "Sets the Record Straight"?
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Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:17 AM
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The American Spectator reports that Gen. David Petraeus has "poured cold water" on the controversy caused by reports, later corroborated by testimony he submitted to the US Senate Armed Services Committee, that he views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... |
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Update: Petraeus and Benghazi
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Sunday, March 03, 2013 5:12 AM
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Fox News reports that following Senate fury (when?) over a heavily redacted set of White House documents pertaining to the 9/11/12 attack on the US compound in Benghazi, a second set of documents "were delivered to Capitol Hill Thursday night which had... |
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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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King on Petraeus
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:20 PM
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Below is a CNN transcript of Rep. Peter King's appearance before the press after David Petraeus appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on November 16. King is clearly struggling with what he has heard from Petraeus: a version of Petraeus' September... |
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Petraeus of Benghazi
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Saturday, November 03, 2012 6:01 AM
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First, the WSJ, now the NYT: CIA Director David Petraeus is feeling a little heat from the spotlight regarding Benghazi. It's an extremely soft-focus spot, however, one that obscures the most important question regarding Petraeus' role in Obama... |
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Dissing Israel: The Ultimate in Dhimmitude
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:38 AM
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The Free Beacon reported this week on the continuing omission of Israel from the new Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). At a recent forum meeting in Spain, Maria Otero, US Under Secretary of State, delivered a speech titled "Victims of Terrorism"... |
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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 Pledges to Continue McChrystal's "Great Work"
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:13 AM
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I'm not kidding with that headline up there, although I can't say I've read one like it anywhere else. But here's what Gen. Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee to earn it yesterday during his confirmation hearing (99-0) when fatal ROEs came up:
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Pakistan's Puppets
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:51 AM
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The Taliban: The ally of my "ally" (Pakistan) is my ... ?
A bunch of stories today trumpet a new London School of Economics report on Pakistani... |
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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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Naturally, Dhimmi Gen. Allen Supports Hillary
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Monday, August 01, 2016 9:40 AM
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Watch around Minute 8 to see Allen rationalize Muslim-on-infidel "insider attacks" as resulting from Ramadan fasting, bad weather and "operational tempo."
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Missing Islam
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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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So That's Why Bush Wanted to Prevent Israel From Attacking Iranian Nukes
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:54 AM
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The Washington Post's Walter Pincus has extracted some other items of interest from Robert Gates' book, Duty (noted earlier here). These include the forgotten fact that the Bush administration discussed withdrawing the "surge" in Iraq even as it was getting underway, much as the Obama administration would do more emphatically vis a vis Afghanistan. (Similarly, a withdrawal date from Iraq was set by Bush.)
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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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Is Benghazi an Iranian Secret?
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Sunday, August 04, 2013 5:15 AM
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Mark Langfan writing at IsraelNationalNews.com advances a plausible theory that it is not a CIA gun-running pipeline to Al Qaeda that the Obama administration is stonewalling on Benghazi, but rather an Iranian attack on a CIA gun-running pipeline to Al... |
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Can a Globalist Be a Patriot?
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Friday, July 12, 2013 5:38 PM
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Something a little different: Instead of writing a column opposing the nomination of Samantha Power to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, I appeared on a panel in Washington, D.C., last week to state the case.... |
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Milbank's Mountebank Defense of Samantha Power
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Saturday, July 06, 2013 7:31 AM
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On July 3, Frank Gaffney organized a press conference at the National Press Club to oppose the nomination of Samantha Power to become US Representative to the United Nations. In addition to Gaffney, Lt. Col. Allen West (USA ret.), Amb. Jose Sorzano, Lt.... |
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From the Vaults: Creeping Amnesty
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Monday, June 17, 2013 4:49 AM
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I have been reading through five- and six-year-old columns on the Amnesty Wars of 2006-2007 that We, the People won. That means George W. Bush, Big Business, The Wall Street Journal, the illegal alien street protests ("Si, Se Puede," "Yes, We Can"), and La... |
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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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Q for GOP: Why Hagel (and not Kerry, Brennan, Clinton, Obama ...)?
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Friday, March 01, 2013 5:08 AM
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One last question about newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
Why?
Why for nearly two months (a Washington eternity) did this nominee above all others galvanize GOP Senate opposition?
I ask the question in genuine wonderment. After all, there was John Kerry with that giant bull’s-eye on his record for giving outrageous aid and comfort to America’s enemies by, among other things, entering into negotiations with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in 1971. How does a U.S. citizen tapped to lead the State Department not have to answer to U.S. senators for such treasonous behavior while a young but already noted public figure?
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Little Orphan Benghazi
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Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:57 AM
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Despite media coverage of the Panetta-Dempsey Benghazi hearing best described as extra-terrestrial -- as in, what planet are these reporters on? -- several new pieces of information are now part of the record. They are not,... |
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Sixty MInutes of Agit-Puff
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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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"Violent Extremism" Out, "Global Jihad" In?
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:55 AM
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Black flags of AQ over post-Qaddafi Benghazi, compiled by Libya 360
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The unexpected news of SecState Clinton's appearances on the Hill yesterday is the "spreading jihadist threat." The news is not that it's spreading, or that it's a threat, but rather that Hillary Clinton invoked the term "jihadist." Repeatedly. In both the Senate hearing and in the House hearing after lunch, during which, presumably, Obama administration speech commissars could have emergency-texted her that the terminology of O-choice remains "violent extremism." But no. Clinton talked "global jihad" all day, even if she did echo the same old Bush-Obama-disaster-policy that believes strengthening/stabilizing the new "regimes" of the Arab Spring is the way to combat it. Never mind that the jihadists and the regimes share a common goal: Islamically correct (sharia) totalitarianism.
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The Most Admired Woman in the World
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Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:36 PM
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Americans, Gallup tells us, admire Hillary Clinton more than any other woman in the world – again. This latest accolade marks the 17th time Gallup has found Clinton to be the Most Admired Woman (MAW?) since she became... |
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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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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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Why Did Petraeus Lie Again?
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Saturday, November 17, 2012 9:18 AM
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As CIA Director, David Petraeus testified before the House Intel Committee in a closed hearing on Benghazi on September 14.
(Mistake #1: These hearings should have been open.)
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Running Interference for Petraeus?
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:42 AM
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As the Benghazi storyline clears to a point where CIA Director Petraeus' personal testimony is absolutely required to establish how the White House came to perpetuate a lie for at least two weeks -- namely, that a "spontaneous" but, we now know, non-existent... |
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Where Is Samantha Power?
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Saturday, October 13, 2012 4:13 AM
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Libya's "humanitarian vulcans" Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power (Thrice the brinded cat had mew'd...)
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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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Below is an extraordinary, heart-stopping and historic letter. It... |
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Three Men and a Couch
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:56 AM
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From a joint statement by Sens. Graham, Lieberman and McCain on the burning of the US consulate in Benghazi and murders of the US ambassador and three staffers.
“Yesterday's attack is a tragic and terrible reminder that – despite the hopes of... |
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US-Turkey-Chaired Counterterrorism Forum Dumps Israel
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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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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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Shine a Light Down the Iraqi-Afghan Sinkhole
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Friday, November 18, 2011 6:43 AM
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Gen. Petraeus ordered up the renovation of a water park in Bagdhad in 2008. It opened to much fanfare in 2009, and was nearly waterless and in ruins by 2011. The loss of $1 million in costs (not including military resources), is just a drop in the bucket.
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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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Son of "Flickers"
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Friday, April 01, 2011 8:03 AM
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Up the rebels?
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This week, the commander of NATO, U.S. Adm. James Stavridis,... |
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General Fragile and Reversible
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:40 AM
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Once upon a time, it was kind of a big deal when Gen. David Petraeus came to town to testify before Congress about "the war." That was when the wars in Iraqistan weren't exactly young, but also hadn't yet execeeded the 100-Year-War, and hadn't stretched... |
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Aaron Klein: US-Trained Forces Arrested for Israeli Family Massacre
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Monday, March 14, 2011 3:59 PM
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WND.com's Aaron Klein reports:
JERUSALEM – Two members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' official security forces were arrested in conjunction with this past weekend's bloody massacre in which five family members were brutally stabbed to death inside their home in the Jewish village of Itamar, WND has learned.
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US Government Community-Organizing -- in France
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Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:19 AM
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Residence of the US Community Organizer, Paris
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From Wikileaks, more vital evidence of a US government running amok with malpractice. This time the revelation is that US Embassy in Paris is community-organizing the French umma. The cable, signed by US Ambassador Rivkin, is breathtaking in relating its invasive and patronizing plan -- a Minority Engagement Strategy for France, which, last time I checked, was still a functioning Western democratic republic.
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Allen West, Keith Ellison and Hijacking the Faith
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Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:17 AM
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How about a photo-trip down sharia-memory lane? Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) on the hustings for then-Senate-candidate Al Franken in October 2008 with Somali sharia court enthusiast Abdullahi Ugas Farah.
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The IRS's "Israel Special Policy": Do They Sew Yellow Stars on It?
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:32 PM
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The blog Yid with Lid reports this week on the most outrageous intrusion of the Obama administration into free speech in America to date: The IRS's "Israel Special Policy," which kicks in to deny tax-exempt status to non-profits whose policies "espouse or support positions inconsistent with the Obama administration’s Israel policies."
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Wilders: "Israel Is FIghting Our War"
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Monday, November 22, 2010 2:52 PM
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More courage, wisdom and humanity from Geert Wilders in the Israeli paper Yedioth via Gates of Vienna, which has posted the English translation of the Hebrew:
Even a journalist from a friendly country such as Israel does not escape invasive hands... |
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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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The Military-Journalistic Complex
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Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:24 AM
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The Politico headline on this story -- "Petraeus' emails on Israel leaked" -- is misleading. The story here is "Leaked E-mails Show CENTCOM General and Journalist (Max Boot) Work Damage Control on Petraeus' Israel Problem."
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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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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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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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Q & A Time
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:16 AM
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At Family Security Matters this week, Ruth King of Ruthfully Yours has interviewed me about Petraeus's Israel Problem, the Conservatives'... |
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The Worst Thing About Democratic Party Health Care
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:31 AM
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It's the time. And the energy. And the concentration, the singular focus of brains and resources that will be required to mount the essential effort to repeal the government takeover of medicine in this country. That's the worst thing about Democratic Party Health Care. It is as if we have before us a Cold War to wage within our own country against a new, existential, communist threat -- the US Government.
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Two State, One State, No Israel
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Monday, May 04, 2009 5:01 AM
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The latest from Mahmoud Abbas -- PA leader, Holocaust denier and Obama's first phone call as president -- is that "he will tell US President Barack Obama this month that resuming peace talks with Israel hinges on its approval of a two-state solution," reports AFP.
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Israeli Tanks on the Move
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 2:54 PM
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Israel's ground war in Gaza began earlier today. If Israel keeps its nerve and destroys Hamas, it will have done an ungrateful... |
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Obama's Farrakhan Problem
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Diana West
Friday, February 29, 2008 9:49 AM
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Here is a preview of this week's column. Contrary to the conventional take on the Obama-Farrakhan Debate Moment, Sen. Obama did not reject Farrakhan's support. See for yourself below.
OBAMA'S TRUTHINESS ABOUT FARRAKHAN
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No. 1 Senate Liberal
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Diana West
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:47 AM
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This one totally passed me by:
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate... |
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The Surge of 2007
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Diana West
Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:29 AM
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I agree with my good friend Michelle Malkin that the American infusion of troops into Iraq, well known as "the surge," was The Story of 2007. Certainly not the Virginia Tech massacre, and not the Barry Bonds steroid scandal, as MSM organizations maintain.
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The NIE, Iran, the US and Israel
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Diana West
Friday, December 07, 2007 10:44 AM
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The Jerusalem Post's Carolyn Glick sums up the fallout from the NIE, which this week, of course, declared that Iran had decided eschew nuclear weapons-making for underwater basket-weaving. This pronouncement--which is not even supported by the body of the report--has set off a clamor for engagement with the Iranian mullah-ocracy, and against any policies that might be construed as strong or effective, from military strikes (natch) to even sanctions. Glick's analysis is especially trenchant, and bitterly so, when she speculates about the tie-in to last week's Annapolis Conference:... |
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Good Riddance
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Diana West
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:54 AM
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As I wend my way through my veritable library of Clinton Scandals Past (column to follow), I have happened across two good reasons to say Good Riddance to longtime Republican Senator from Mississippi Trent Lott, who announced his retirement from the Senate... |
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Holding Hands
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Diana West
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:18 AM
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Having submitted to Saudi dictates against their shaking hands with, or any Muslims using the same doorways as Israelis at last week's Munich Conference--I mean--the Annapolis Conference, the United States of America now limps a little as Leader of the Free... |
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Condi's Amoral World View
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Diana West
Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:28 AM
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At a closed-door session during the Munich Conference--I mean, the Annapolis Conference--Condoleezza Rice spoke of the empathy she feels for both Palestinian Arabs and Israelis due to her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama "at a time of separation and tension"... |
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Shaking Hands with Saudi Arabia
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Diana West
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:06 AM
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Every story about Saudi Arabia's participation in the Munich Conference--I mean, Annapolis Conference--reports the fact that the Saudis have pre-emptively trumpeted their refusal to shake hands with the Israelis.
Well, who wants to shake hands with the... |
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"The Tyranny of the First Stage"?
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Diana West
Monday, November 19, 2007 6:37 PM
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As it plans to insert Israel into the meat-grinder at Annapolis next week and pull out a "legacy" on the other side, the Bush administration is sounding increasingly desparate in its rhetoric of justification for this perversely villlainous political act.... |
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Brangelina: Dhimm-wits
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Diana West
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:20 AM
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Flash!
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have just bought a manmade island of the coast of Dubai in the shape of Ethiopia. News accounts tell us they plan to use the reclaimed piece of land to showcase....Guess what?
The Dubai boycott of all things Israeli?... |
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Suicide by Self-Doubt?
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Diana West
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:45 AM
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Because Israel has spent its entire modern history in a state of siege, surrounded by enemies who seek its destruction, what we tend to think of as "culture wars" over identity and point of view have a dire connection to reality in Israel that our own culture... |
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The Real Culture War
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Diana West
Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:07 AM
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What was the big story of the week?
Gen. Petraeus' testimony? Nope.
Another 9/11 come and gone? Nope.
The biggest story of the week--in many ways, the age--took place in Brussels, the so-called capital of Europe. There, a small band... |
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GOP, Don't Call Me
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Diana West
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 9:29 AM
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Just had the weirdest call from the NRSC -- National Republican Senatorial Committee. Usually, when I see these party fundraising... |
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Who Needs Shakespeare When You Have C-SPAN?
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Diana West
Saturday, January 07, 2023 8:00 AM
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This week's battle against the fatal inexorability of "Speaker McCarthy" seemed a little different from Swamp business as usual. There was, of course, the very public power struggle between Obstacle and Ambition, which went forward in an unscripted and, especially after the last stand of the House Holdouts, dramatic fashion (see above).
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Dr. Robert Malone: A Risk Analysis
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Diana West
Friday, January 28, 2022 1:56 PM
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The following notes will be confounding to some, confirming to others. They represent a good bit of time listening and trying to decode the persona and messaging of Dr. Robert Malone, which, for some time, have struck me as off-kilter for a prominent leader of the covid-tyranny opposition.
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Verified: The Perfidy of Pence
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Diana West
Sunday, March 28, 2021 7:42 AM
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Last week, I wrote a story about the extraordinary, weaselly language Mike Pence used on January 6, as President of the Senate, to avoid counting the alternate slates of Trump electors from seven states.
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Citizen Trump
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Diana West
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 2:09 PM
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This engraving depicts the 1793 trial of Citizen Louis Capet. He had been stripped of his title, King Louis XVI,... |
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Life in the Crosshairs
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Diana West
Saturday, January 23, 2021 7:09 AM
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The hunt is on. We are all quarry now. Jackal media and hyena politicians, tasting first blood in their next victim,... |
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Peace Out
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Diana West
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 9:39 AM
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Disappointment Update, Jan 20, 7:14am.
I don't understand why Trump didn't pardon political prisoner and... |
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Uncharted Tyranny
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Diana West
Sunday, January 17, 2021 2:32 AM
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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