By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,Townhall.com The terrorist release that has garnered headlines is Scotland’s release of the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. On his return home,al-Megrahi was fêted as a hero by Libya’s President Moammar Gadhafi. Such merriment is a sad capstone to events [...] By Randall Hoven,American Thinker Obama Insults Gordon Brown,The Queen and Britain "He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing." If Goethe was right,I guess we can give up on President Obama exerting a useful influence. By now he’s insulted just about [...] By Bob Englehart,The Hartford Courant by Patrick J. Buchanan,Buchanan.org “Taliban Are Winning:U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties.” Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: “The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan,the top American commander there said,[...] By Laura King,LA Times Roadside Bombs are a way of life in Afghanistan for US Troops The pace of American combat deaths in Afghanistan has quickened anew as roadside bombs killed five U.S. troops in 24 hours in the same western province,the American military said Thursday. The deaths [...] By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan,Bloomberg President Barack Obama and top U.S. military commanders are being pressed by senators and civilian advisers to more than double the size of Afghan security forces,a move that would cost billions of dollars. In letters and face-to-face meetings,the lawmakers and defense officials [...] By Patrick Corrigan,The Toronto Star DEBKAfile Obama's war is Afganistan is going badly The approximately 60,000 NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan are unable to achieve the goals of the war –even with the additional 21,000 US combat troops promised this year and “the big jump in the size of Afghan security forces”demanded by the new [...] Seth Jones,New York Post As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan,they face an enemy familiar to US officials —Mullah Zakir,a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban. Abdul Qayum Zakir,also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul,is from Helmand Province and has taken [...] | |
