Back in 2007, when Gen. David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that year, he typically said: "I'm conscious of a couple of things. One is that the Washington clock is moving more...
Behind Cautious Signal, a Decision for Afghan Peace Talks
KABUL - Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's very cautiously-worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership in an interview published Monday is only the first public signal of a policy decision by the Barack Obama administration to support a political...
JAG Officer: Indefinite Detention ‘Defies Common Sense’
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights advocates, who charge that the government simply does not have enough...
Old ‘War-Bloggers’ Never Die…
The brouhaha over the "conversion" of Charles Johnson, proprietor of the "little green footballs" blog, from a rabid party-lining rightist to an equally rabid party-lining Obama-oid is being given a lot of attention, by the liberal media for...
Obama Takes on the Muslim World
Why Freeze Spending on Only Part of the Budget?
The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a "shot heard 'round the world" – or at least one heard 'round Washington. All the spending lately in Washington has apparently alienated the...
Tuesday: 23 Iraqis Killed, 85 Wounded
The Stepford Congressional Delegations
The Liebarak
The business is registered in the name of Binyamin Netanyahu. But the reality is different. Netanyahu has never been more than a slick patent-medicine salesman. That is a type that appears frequently in American Westerns and sells an elixir that is good for...
Israel Creates First ‘Army-Owned’ University
Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine Palestinian confidence in the peace process. The decision, authorizing the...


