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Al-Qaeda and the Nazis: 4,481 Days that Terrorized the World (Die Welt, Germany)
On December 18 we passed something of a milestone that went almost unnoticed: the post-9-11 world came of age, matching the length of time of the reign of Nazi terror. For Germany’s Die Welt,...
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Yes Virginia, We Can Have Both Liberty AND Security
On February 26, 2006, when the war in Iraq had been raging for almost three years, when more than 2,000 of our troops had already been killed and less than a year before George W. Bush announced that...
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Gates Is No Rumsfeld (Updates)
UPDATE III: The Hill reports that President Obama is downplaying the charges his former Secretary of Defense makes in his memoir. Obama dismissed questions about his commitment to the war in...
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Gates Is No Rumsfeld, ‘Once More with Feeling’
My “Gates Is no Rumsfeld” post is getting a bit crowded with updates and comments. Thus, it might be a good idea to start a new column — a final one, before we all get the chance to read the book for...
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Kerry Thinks it’s Back to Business as Usual? ‘What a Miscalculation!’...
It appears that the American delegation to the Munich Security Conference had hoped they could entirely avoid the subject of NSA spying while visiting Germany. No such luck. For the Frankfurter...
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(Update) Taliban Capture Coalition Military Dog
The newly unveiled U.S. Military Working Dog Teams National Monument at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the home to the Department of Defense Military Working Dog Program and the world’s largest...
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On Russian Spies and ‘Snowdenistas’: A Rebuttel of Edward Lucas (Gazeta...
It is becoming something of a cottage industry. Two weeks ago, Patrik Etschmayer of Switzerland’s News rejected historian Sean Wilentz, who in the pages of the New Republic, attacked Edward Snowden,...
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Military Chaplains – A Tribute
“Chaplains assigned to those units found themselves spending far more time comforting the wounded and praying for the fallen—and trying to evade capture— than they did in ministering to the living.” –...
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‘Disabled Veteran’ Meets Disabled Veteran.
Some of our readers may have watched it. Regardless, it is timeless and priceless. Especially in view of the shameful backlog our injured combat veterans face when applying for or trying to get...
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(Update) Cheney: How to Conflate National Security with Food Stamps
Update: Mr. Cheney — instead of bringing up the food stamps canard — may want to talk to his Republican friends in the Senate to truly support the troops. The Hill: Senate Republicans stopped...
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(Updated) Ukraine: Condoleezza Rice Joins the Cabal
Update: The New Republic published a column by Leon Wieseltier that, in its attacks on Obama’s Ukraine policy specifically and his foreign policy in general, is similar to Condoleezza Rice’s column...
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America and Germany: The ‘Axis of Pragmatism’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine...
Has Vladimir Putin managed to re-glue the American-German alliance? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung columnist Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger writes that the ‘re-Sovietization’ of Russia has shown that the...
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(Update) Afghanistan: With Friends Like These…
Update: In her Fox News interview with Donald Rumsfeld, Greta van Susteren gives the former secretary of defense a chance to redeem himself after his comments that he “understands” and “sympathizes...
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The Donald Rumsfeld I Got to Know
Fellow contributor Shaun Mullen discusses the recent and lengthy four-part New York Times op-ed series by Errol Morris, an op-ed that focuses on former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s “lack of...
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Condoleezza Rice Cancels Rutgers Commencement Speech Over Student Protests
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled her commencement address at Rutgers University after students and some faculty members protested her appearance. Rice said in a statement Saturday...
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The End of American Empire? Get Serious! (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland)
President Obama is mercilessly assailed by Republicans and others for being weak, and America is increasingly called a nation in decline. Is the United States as frail and decrepit as some people...
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Shinseki and the VA ‘Scandal’ in Perspective
Michael Tomasky over at the Daily Beast tells it like it is. • “No Drama’ Obama” should have fired Shinseki a few weeks ago: The only thing that the delay of the inevitable accomplished was to give...
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Obama’s Chance to Make Up for Missteps Toward Poles (Rzeczpospolita, Poland)
Poland has never been a fan of President Obama. From controversy over the anti-missile shield, to sore feelings over his administration’s refusal to allow Poles to travel to the U.S. visa free, to the...
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The ‘Nazi Stench’ and U.S. ‘Fascism’ (La Jornada, Mexico)
When your government carries out untold numbers of coups and military interventions abroad without the consent of the people, often based on false allegations, when the law allows the military to...
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The Dogs of War Are Yelping Again
There is a saying, “Let sleeping dogs lie.” The only problem with the Iraq War dogs is that they never went to sleep. Even after the disastrous consequences of their ill conceived — conceived on a lie...
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