Last Exit Before Quagmire

The Washington Post yesterday made available an unclassified version of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's long-awaited report on the war in Afghanistan. Politically, the report is bold, in that it acknowledges the enemy has the initiative and we have been fighting the war –...

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Tuesday: 2 Iraqis Wounded

Updated at 5:51 p.m. EDT, Sept. 22, 2009 Due the Eid al-Fitr holiday, news out of Iraq has been scant. Only two people were reported wounded today. Back in the United States, a U.S. soldier has been charged with murder in the death of a U.S. contractor on Sept. 13 in Tikrit, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is in New York to ask the United Nations to drop any Saddam-era debts Iraq still owes.
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Obama’s High Noon

Recent events indicate that President Barack Obama is considering cutting the Pentagon's "long war" short. First came his decision to drop the Bush administration policy of demanding that Iran cede its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes as a...

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Black Sea Wars

In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia's former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was sentenced to 24 years. When Ankara protested, he...

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Five Decades of an Admittedly Failed Cuba Policy

U.S. citizens of Cuban descent are once again free to travel to Cuba and send an unlimited amount of money to their relatives on the island, but for the most part U.S. policy toward the communist nation hasn't changed under President Barack Obama. Since taking office,...

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Monday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 2 Wounded

At least four Iraqis were killed and two more were wounded in light Eid al-Fitr holiday violence. Meanwhile, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George Bush last year, has requested Swiss asylum. Also, a public inquiry in Britain has learned that British troops repeatedly abused Iraqi detainees.
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War Crimes and Denial

Is there no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel. Not the old accusation of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood for baking Passover matzoth, as in the past, but of the...

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