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The US gives until it hurts

By John Bolton February 2, 2010 @ 10:49am

The motto for United States humanitarian relief efforts around the world, most recently in Haiti, should be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” However much or little America contributes, someone complains, from those who think we unfairly have to shoulder a disproportionate share of the world’s disaster relief to those who think our response smacks of imperialism.

 

America’s long-d…

More Mr. Nice Guy

By John Bolton February 1, 2010 @ 9:25am

In his lengthy State of the Union address, President Obama was brief on national security issues, which he squeezed in toward the end. International terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even America’s relief efforts in Haiti all flashed past in bullet-point mentions. On Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama emphasized neither victory nor determination, but merely the early withdrawal of U.S. forces from both. His once vaunted Middle East p…

Silencing Savage Speech

By Deborah Weiss January 29, 2010 @ 7:28am

Michael Savage, a top rated conservative talk show host, has been banned from Britain. In context, his ban is merely one manifestation of the incremental restrictions of freedom of speech on Islam.

 

This past May, Michael Savage awoke one morning to google the news. He was astonished to see in black and white that he had been banned from the UK for his “extremist views.” Thinking it was nothing more tha…

Wartime Contracting Commission opens offices in Iraq and Afghanistan to support its work

By Clark Irwin January 26, 2010 @ 8:39am

The federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has opened two offices in the Southwest Asia theater of operations to support its work.

 

One office is in central Baghdad, Iraq. The other is at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, about 25 miles northeast of Kabul.

 

Robert B. Dickson, the Commission’s executive director, said the field offices have been established to h…

Bin Laden Tape claims responsibility for attempted Christmas day Bombing and Warns Obama on Mideast

By Robert Fragnito January 25, 2010 @ 1:54pm

 

 

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