Ten years ago today, our country and my family received a terrible blow. We were attacked. Our countrymen were murdered. We were shaken. 9/11 is an important historical event that has defined much of the last ten years, but it was also a family tragedy for me, as my Uncle Donnie Regan gave his life [...]
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Ten Years After September 11, 2001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9/11, afghanistan, al qaeda, Bush, Donald Regan, FDNY, History, Immigration, Iraq, John Lukacs, Leftist, Liberal Media, Liberalism, Meaning, Military, obama, Pacifism, Propaganda, Remembered Past, Rhetoric, Twin Towers, War, WTC on 11 Sep 2011 | 7 Comments »
Reality Check on Military Tribunals
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged al qaeda, foreign policy, gitmo, Holder, Jurisprudence, Khalid Sheikh Mohamamd, KSM, law, Law of War, Military, Military Tribunals, Muslims, Politics on 5 Apr 2011 | 1 Comment »
Military tribunals make perfect sense for members of al Qaeda. These individuals are non-citizens, their prosecution often depends on sensitive intelligence, and their presence in American courtrooms would be disruptive and a security risk. In war, military tribunals have been used from the Revolutionary War forward, and their streamlined procedures, ability to hold proceedings in [...]
Obama’s Iraq Policy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afghanistan, al qaeda, counterinsurgency, Counterterrorism, Iraq, Military, Nation Building, obama on 1 Sep 2010 | 2 Comments »
I read (but did not watch) the President’s speech on Iraq. Of all the things he has done as President, stopping our mindless “stay the course” approach in Iraq has been something I generally approve. I also think it’s a testament to his relative moderation on foreign policy that our withdrawal has been orderly. I [...]
Hillary’s Foreign Policy
Posted in Election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, tagged al qaeda, Anti-Terrorism, China, Counter-Terrorism, Foreign Affiars, foreign policy, George Bush, GWB, Hillary Clinton, Idealism, Iran, Iraq, iraq war, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, obama, President Clinton, realism, Russia, Terrorism on 21 Oct 2007 | 10 Comments »
If Obama’s foreign policy is sometimes incoherent, Hillary’s is simply Bush-lite. Her recent essay in Foreign Affairs reveals herself as someone who does not depart substantially from the globalist paradigm of Bush and President Clinton, with the main difference being her greater faith in “diplomacy.” In a world where many nations’ interests involve knocking America down in [...]
Bush’s Rhetorical Failure
Posted in Bush, Rhetoric, tagged , al qaeda, allies, Bush, cia, Constitution, criticism, critics, executive, fbi, moveon.org, rendition, Rhetoric, Speeches, torture, water boarding on 6 Oct 2007 | 3 Comments »
Bush’s defense of his more controversial stands in the war on terror has been Clintonian. First, he denies that something is taking place. Then, when that something–in this case, the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” is exposed–he simply denies without explanation a reasonable characterization by critics: these techniques constitute torture. Now, I do not support [...]
Thomas Friedman: Partisan for an Illusion
Posted in al qaeda, Free Markets, Politics, Tom Friedman, tagged , 9/10, 9/11, 9/12, al qaeda, army, borders, castro, cuba, Davos, Friedman, gitmo, Globalization, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, marines, Media Bias, Military, New York Times on 1 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In between his paeans to folks in Bangalore wearing Nike shoes and drinking Starbucks coffee while talking on their Samsung phones, Thomas Friedman also likes to write about foreign policy. He infamously declared every six months for three years running that the situation in Iraq was critical and, by implication, that if things did not [...]
The Price of Process
Posted in Constitution, Liberty, Military, tagged 9/11, ace, al qaeda, atta, cellular, cia, civil liberties, communications, fbi, fisa, geoffrey stone, hillary, iraq war, islam, islamic, jihad, kidnaped soldiers, law, Liberals, obama, phone calls, phones, plots, ron paul, signals, signals intelligence, surveillance, tactics, Terrorism, wireless on 29 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ace reports an extraordinary story that I’d like to hear the disciples of judicial process and civil liberties for terrorists in the Democratic Party respond to: Last May, Iraqi terrorists kidnapped three American soldiers. American intelligence officials searched for cyber-signals about the kidnapping… and actually found them. They found the kidnappers talking to each other [...]
Al Qaeda, Anbar, and Fourth Generation Warfare
Posted in 4GW War, Iraq, Strategy and Tactics, tagged al qaeda, army, d-n-i, dni, fourth generation, Iraq, marines, ramadi, strategy, tactics, Terrorism, warfare, william lind on 26 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
William Lind argues that al Qaeda’s previous strengths–its fanaticism and decentralization–may prove its undoing in Iraq: It is reasonably clear that, contrary to the White House’s claims, the “surge” had little or nothing to do with the improved situation in Anbar province in Iraq. That security there has improved is a fact; a Marine friend [...]
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