The New CW
The security progress in Iraq this year is so overwhelming and obvious that even critics of the war cannot gainsay it. And now, belatedly, we are seeing the inevitable political ramifications in this...
View ArticleStemming the Tide
In today’s Guardian, we read: The number of foreign jihadists entering Iraq has fallen by nearly half in recent months as a result of tougher action by the country’s neighbors and the rejection of the...
View ArticleOdierno’s Departure
Nadia Schadlow has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal pointing out why it would be folly to move General Petraeus out of Iraq prematurely. This is a point that others, including me, have...
View Article“The World”
In a radio interview, President Bush said “the world ought to be angry and condemn” the Burmese junta for their response to the cyclone that devastated their country eleven days ago. Waiting for “the...
View ArticleMissile Defensiveness
Today’s New York Times could find no bloody and hopeless Iraq story to run in its A section. But the paper of record weighed in with some indispensable coverage all the same. Amazingly, a missile was...
View ArticleNews from Sadr City
On the front page of today’s New York Times we read this: Iraqi forces rolled unopposed through the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City on Tuesday, a dramatic turnaround from the bitter fighting that has...
View ArticleAl Qaeda and America’s Role in the World
Today, Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, a spokesman for the Multi-National Force in Iraq, seemed to back away from recent remarks made by Ryan Crocker. Speaking to reporters yesterday in Najaf, the...
View ArticlePelosi Credits Iran’s “Goodwill” for Surge Success
In an interview yesterday with the San Francisco Chronicle, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed the U.S. troop surge failed to accomplish its goal. She then partially credited the success of the...
View ArticleObama Must Face Iraq’s Truth
Three Iraq-related stories from Sunday are worth noting. According to Reuters U.S. troop deaths in Iraq fell to their lowest level last month since the 2003 invasion and officials said on Sunday...
View ArticleAvoiding Reality, Excusing Our Enemies
Reuel Marc Gerecht in a must-read column explains: A concern for not giving offense to Muslims would never prevent the French internal-security service, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire...
View ArticleKeeping the Boot Off
Bret Stephens loudly and appropriately cheers the latest demonstration of Iraqi democracy, a historic achievement he notes was arrived at “first by force of American arms, next by dint of Iraqi will.”...
View ArticleIs General Petraeus Behind Obama’s Dressing Down of Israel?
What’s behind the administration’s new get-tough policy with Israel? If you believe Mark Perry, a former Arafat adviser and author of Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies,...
View ArticlePelosi: “We Will Do What Is Necessary”
Nancy Pelosi said in a news conference yesterday, while discussing use of the extra-constitutional “deeming rule” that would allow skittish members to avoid actually voting on the Senate health-care...
View ArticleI Make No Apology, Ms. West
I received the following e-mail today from columnist Diana West demanding a correction: You wrote: Diana West added a truly inventive spin, by suggesting that Petraeus was a protégé of Stephen Walt,...
View ArticleThe Brzezinski Card — In Play or Not?
This report does not fill one with confidence concerning the administration’s reaction to an Israeli air strike on Iran: In a town hall on the campus of the University of West Virginia, a young airman...
View ArticleHarvard’s Double Standard on Gay Rights
On FOX News Sunday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, in talking about the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, makes this helpful comparison: On the one hand, Harvard accepts money...
View ArticleObama’s Iraq Hypocrisy
In his commencement address at West Point, President Obama said this: For many years, our focus was on Iraq. And year after year, our troops faced a set of challenges there that were as daunting as...
View ArticleCENTCOM’s ‘Red Team’ Hearts Hamas and Hezbollah
It appears that the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups have some friends in a rather unlikely niche of the American military. While the Obama administration has maintained the line that both these...
View ArticleFROM THE JULY/AUG ISSUE: The Soft-Power Fallacy
In May, Barack Obama delivered the commencement address to West Point’s 2010 graduating class and offered high praise for the accomplishments of the American military—including the most unabashed...
View ArticlePetraeus on Afghanistan
This past weekend, General David Petraeus, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, granted interviews to the Washington Post, New York Times, and Meet the Press [here and here]....
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