Don't patronize the enemy. They mean business. They mean every word they say. They're killing us now. Their will is not broken, They mean it. ... If they're there, your job is to kill them all. I did not want to have them just retreat and have to fight them all over again.
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More interventionism = More defense spending
With all eyes focused on the Republicans and Democrats trying to out-incompetent each other on the federal budget, I thought it best to keep quiet until that exercise is complete. But I think the unreality of the whole budget mess is so pervasive that I decided to throw in my two cents in the area [...]
Posted in Articles Also tagged Arab Spring, bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, United States, Yemen 14 Comments
Not even Wikileaks can help: Obama’s inexplicable diplomacy in South Asia
Below is an essay that I wrote this week for the electronic journal The Diplomat. The title above is my original title. The journal changed it in a way that made it look like I endorsed Wikileaks’ illegal activities. The editor agreed to change that title and it is now called “When Wikileaks meets U.S. [...]
A smaller Afghan role for al-Qaeda is very bad news for the West
Because public discussion about Afghanistan is heated in the wake of another corrupt Afghan parliamentary election, as well as because of rising U.S.-NATO casualties and the start of General Petreaus’s long-delayed Kandahar “offensive,” I have posted below a talk that I recently delivered. The talk deals with how al-Qaeda’s role in the Taleban’s war against [...]
Posted in Articles Also tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, Mullah Omar, NATO, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen 3 Comments
In the “Obama-vs-History” contest, Obama and America are sure losers
I started out to write a piece about the whole of President Obama’s predictable and deceitful speech last night about Iraq. On reflecting a bit more, however, I came to focus on the president’s phrase: “It is time to turn the page on Iraq,” a phrase which underscores how woefully ignorant Obama and his colleagues [...]
Posted in Articles Also tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, South Asia, Syria, UK, UN, United States 6 Comments
Pity poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy