Oct 21, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Human Events: President Obama's announced decision this week to remain undecided on new troops in Afghanistan for weeks, or even months, rejects his top commander's determination that without urgent reinforcements the war may be lost. At yesterday’s White House press briefing, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs reconfirmed that President Obama had not decided when a decision on a ...
Continue ReadingOct 18, 2009 20 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: White House seeks to explain its hesitations on Afghanistan President Obama will not decide whether to sanction a troop surge for Afghanistan until the issue of whether the country has a credible government has been settled, the White House Chief of Staff said today. Rahm Emanuel said that the question of whether to send 40,000 extra ...
Continue ReadingOct 18, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Independent: In his fortified headquarters, Lt-Col Charlie Calder drew a large red circle on a map with a laser pointer indicating a vast expanse of northern Helmand, his area of responsibility. He then ringed a spot the size of a 10p piece – less than 20km square – to highlight the ground he and his ...
Continue ReadingOct 16, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Times: Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis. Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: ...
Continue ReadingOct 16, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Halloween night at Hugh Hefner’s not-so-humble abode will still be filled with all the usual suspects - scantily-clad costumed women, bopping blonde bunnies, a Haunted House and Hollywood’s hottest stars. But while the 31st of October itself isn’t an official Hugh Hefner party, for this year its going to be even more special as the ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. veterans criticized President Barack Obama's lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation's defense. The head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, a group representing 1.5 million former soldiers, issued a tersely worded statement urging Obama to follow ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Tuesday he will decide on new troops for Afghanistan in "the coming weeks." He told reporters that decisions on the military front were important but just one aspect of the improvements needed to the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. He said an important element is building up civilian capacity to help ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
So what Obama's outstretched hand, new era babbling about how the world is going to be so nice to us and everyone if we just start being nice to them, start kissing their asses, what his "restart button, what his cowardly abandonment of the missile defense system in Poland gets us...nothing...precisely what it has gotten ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit military nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads. The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: President Obama insisted Tuesday that his review of the war in Afghanistan was in line with the strategy he unveiled last spring ... "We are going through a very deliberate process that is completely consistent with what I said back in March," Obama told reporters after a meeting with Spanish Preisdent Zapatero. "At the time, ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical†foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security. The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday the time had not yet come for more sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and praised what she said was Russia's help in tackling the issue. Clinton, on her first visit to Russia since taking her post, quoted Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom. The 15-ton behemoth—called ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
I have the following information from a very reliable military affairs source: "Obama was presented three options by General McChrystal: 1) small increase, 2) 40,000 extra troops, 3) Over 60K troops. 40K is the primary choice of the top brass, --- in presenting 3 options, he was able to illustrate why the ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 34 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration. You'll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it's easy to set up, and if you'd rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) -- US Republican Senator John McCain warned Sunday that a failure to dispatch more US troops to Afghanistan would be "an error of historic proportions" but Democrats expressed caution about any surge. "I think the great danger now is not an American pullout," McCain told CNN television. "I think the great danger now is a ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Examiner: by Anthony G. Martin From the very start of Barack Obama's rather odd, meteoric rise to prominence in American politics, many of us on the conservative side voiced our suspicions that something subversive was under way. Too many strange coincidences, too many troublesome alliances, too much hype in too short a period of time all pointed to ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Washington - - Top Republican senators escalated their call Sunday for President Obama to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan, and one prominent Democrat warned that a failure to do so could jeopardize U.S. forces. The Obama administration is allegedly in deliberations over whether to build on its counterinsurgency strategy with ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Liz Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama should send a message to the Nobel Committee at the Dec. 10 awards ceremony in Oslo, suggesting that he skip the ceremony and send the mother of a fallen soldier to show the importance of the war efforts. "The notion that this White House says he will go ...
Continue ReadingOct 11, 2009 14 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: WASHINGTON — In late 2001, Mullah Muhammad Omar’s prospects seemed utterly bleak. The ill-educated, one-eyed leader of the Taliban had fled on a motorbike after his fighters were swiftly routed by the Americans invading Afghanistan. Much of the world celebrated his ouster, and Afghans cheered the return of girls’ education, music and ordinary ...
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