4 days ago by Joe Scarry

I read the description in yesterday's New York Times of how the U.S. is planning to escalate withdrawal of regular combat troops from Afghanistan, and rely on Special Forces (Green Berets) to guide the work of local troops and police. I don't know how this strikes other people, but it seems to me li ...

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9 days ago by Scotty Starnes

More of that progressive “ smart power” from Team Obama. ( Reuters) – The United States military has said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain’s Times of London newspaper said Wedn ...

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31 days ago by Scotty Starnes

Typical Obama. From The Weekly Standard: At a campaign event this evening at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., President Obama indicated that he had successfully brought about “change”–an ambiguous 2008 campaign promise–by killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. From the official White H ...

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51 days ago by Jake Olzen

Most Christians—and all who celebrate the shop-til-you-drop version of Christmas—are in the final week of hubbub and to-do lists before the big day where Santa drops through the chimney with a bag full of plastic toys made of toxic petro-chemicals that were imported from China. Is that a tad too cyn ...

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52 days ago by moraloutrage

The real story behind the U.S. withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in cooperation with Iran, outmaneuvered Bush and the U.S. military leadership and got the United States to sign the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement. A central ...

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84 days ago by Reliable Sources

We’ve been enablers, acting by, with and through the Iraqi security forces. We have been governed throughout by the concept of what works for the Iraqis. Whatever the eventual outcomes here, whatever subsequent relationships we have with Iraqi security forces, I’m proud of the practical interaction ...

Newsroom Magazine USA Edition - newsroom-magazine.com · 55 references

97 days ago by GuyBlews

Relationship-Expert-Guy-Blews TROOP WITHDRAWAL Relationship Expert Guy Blews on TROOP WITHDRAWAL: Anyone with the ability to think things through can work out that the United States needs to lessen it’s dependence on oil and build up its ability to survive without relying upon hostile friendships. A ...

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105 days ago by Heber Brown, III

Jim Wallis, Founder of Sojourner Magazine Jim Wallis writes a thought-provoking article about the “end” of the Iraq War entitled, It’s Finally Over – and it was Wrong.” It made me think about the first time I was arrested for direct action and civil disobedience in protest of the military invasion a ...

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107 days ago by ExtremeLiberal

I remember all those many months ago when President Obama made clear that he was going to pull our military out of Iraq by the end of 2011 and how it was met with skepticism and pretty much dismissed by those in the Professional Left, who see everything through a filter that turns President Obama in ...

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108 days ago by invar

The Arab Spring blossoms into the Summer of Jihadist Islam heralding the Winter of Doom for the West as Obama empowers Radical Islam to global supremacy. “A Tall black man will assume the reigns of government in the West. He will command the strongest army in the earth, and he will carry a clear sig ...

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