According to the Washington Post, the United States has been secretly releasing Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan for the promise of good behavior. What could possibly go wrong? The United States has for several years been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups,...
Last night retired General Jack Keane told Mike Huckabee that the US was aware of Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts for nearly a year before President Obama gave the order to take him out. blockquote>We actually had the target the summer before execution. In other words we had the target in the summer of 2010....
Andrew Malcolm wasn’t too impressed with President Obama’s speech from Afghanistan last night. It was a bit too poll-tested. It also left a few important things out. One little-noticed provision of the agreement Obama and Karzai signed Tuesday, however, is that American troops will remain in Afghanistan for not one, not two, not even three...
The Taliban sent out suicide bombers dressed up like women in burkas in retaliation for President Obama’s visit to Afghanistan yesterday. Seven were killed and about 17 were injured in the bombing. This happened about two hours after Obama said we would soon see the light of day. The compound’s main gate was destroyed,...
President Obama’s surprise trip to Afghanistan didn’t turn out to be such a surprise after all. I wonder how a foreign news service knew he was to arrive in Afghanistan before he arrived. He will be giving a speech tonight after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President Barack Obama has landed in Afghanistan...
Navy SEALs aren’t too thrilled with the way President Obama has been using the killing of Osama Bin Laden to score political points. Of course, we’re getting this news through the UK Mail Online. Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden...
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. *** Obama’s Leadership Test: A Tale of Two Massacres On a muggy Texas afternoon, in November, 2009, Army Major Hassan drew his weapon, and exuded his battle cry, “Allahu Akbar!” i.e. “Allah is great!” In less than five minutes he massacred thirteen Americans and injured...
At a hearing before the Armed Services Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) questioned Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. They topic was the legal basis for military action. Both indicated that international law would be a legal basis for military action. The constitutional requirement of...
Kira Davis is a concerned American who was so inspired by President Obama’s apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, she’s taken his lead and sent an apology of her own. Let me just say that I approve this message and am happy to pass it along. I especially like the end: Mostly, President Karzai,...
While President Obama touts the end of the Iraq war to score political points, US contractors in Iraq are being detained. The State Department’s official response is that they are not overly concerned. They brush it off as bureaucratic red tape effecting only a “handful” of individuals. CNS News has the details. On Sunday,...
So much for The One bringing the world together and making our enemies love us. Now they openly mock us, knowing they have nothing to fear. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal....
President Obama is releasing Taliban leaders from Gitmo in exchange for Taliban promises to engage in peace talks. It’s been confirmed by Fox News that one of those men is Mullah Mohammed Fazl. He’s a real piece of work. Mark Thiessen gives us the sick history of this terrorist. Mullah Mohammed Fazl Last year, WikiLeaks...
The Obama administration has agreed to release Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the Taliban opening an office in Qatar to engage in peace talks. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, announced on Tuesday morning that the insurgent leadership had reached an agreement with the Qatar government and other “relevant parties” about the...
In an interview with Newsweek, Vice President Joe Biden said that the Taliban isn’t our enemy. Really, he did. “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy...
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