Category Archives: War on Terror
Gitmo Propaganda
It turns out that prisoners released from Gitmo to Yemen are participating in Overseas Contingency Operations against the United States. Not only that, they’re committing Man Caused Disasters! The Commander in Chief has responded. He’s still closing Gitmo but he’ll be sending the prisoners somewhere that is not Yemen. Dr. Krauthammer analyses this here.
Don’t Bank on Obama
The father of the underpants bomber, a retired bank chairman, tried to warn the U.S. about his terrorist son.
The prez – after delaying his Hawaii trip for the Senate’s Christmas Eve health care bill – crawled out of his golf cart today to pronounce that a “systemic failure has occurred”.
18 Month Extension
I’m not sure what to make of this. Evidently the “vital threat to our national security” will end in 18 months.
An officer I met in Baghdad during our USO trip told me it will be much tougher to win in Afghanistan than Iraq and might not be worth it. Here’s smart guy George Will saying it won’t end well. Here’s smart guy Robert Kagan in the Washington Post saying yes it will. And here’s smart ass Ralph Peters in the New York Post calling it surrender in advance.
