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87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo Pledge
3 comments on 87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo PledgeThis week brings further reminders of why breaking that pledge will be the better part of valor. Many of the Gitmo detainees are Very Bad People, and there’s no good option for relocating them.
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Old Europe, an Unearned Nobel Prize, and a War of Necessity
Our European allies clearly have no stomach for the fight. As America considers sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, even the (relatively) stalwart UK today announced plans to send… um… 500. As in…
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Time for Obama to Step Up in Afghanistan
Now parts of the President’s party, desperately seeking a war to lose after being thwarted in Iraq, will turn up the pressure for surrender and retreat.
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Ajami, on Taking the War into the Arab World
President Obama, who seized hold of the “good war” as a club to batter Bush’s “bad war,” has little choice other than to give the strategy that succeeded in Iraq a chance to succeed in…
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George Will Bails Out on Another War
The strategy that so clearly has worked in Iraq deserves an opportunity to succeed in Afghanistan as well.
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Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen Poll
President Obama has slipped to the worst rating of his young presidency in the daily Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, weighing in at -11 points. That’s based on likely voters with strong opinions. He fares better…
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Slouching Towards Europe: Obama’s Domestic Agenda Undercuts American Exceptionalism
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by President Obama’s steadfastness regarding national security issues. After winning his party’s nomination by promising to surrender in Iraq more quickly than the other Democrats would, Obama has: retained his predecessor’s…
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Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You So
President Bush salutes in front of General David Petraeus and Admiral William Fallon, September 2007, in Iraq President Obama today announced an Iraq withdrawal plan that George Bush would be proud to call his own.…