Three incredibly outrageous evasions.
Not surprising, to anyone who’s been observing her for the past couple decades. Rose Law Firm billing records? Cattle futures?
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Kicking off the campaign.
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Category Archives: War Commentary
Dick Durbin
Thoughts on his disgraceful madness.
He really is one of the more contemptible members of Congress, and the thought of him being president should be frightening.
Benghazi
Was it Fast and Furious on steroids?
It’s a theory that seems to fit the available evidence.
Syria’s Chemical Weapons
The Obama administration’s non-existent red line:
Obama says he means not to contain the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons, but to prevent Tehran from acquiring them. Actions, however, speak louder than words. His new cabinet picks, John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan, are all longtime advocates of engagement with rogue regimes—without any fallback plan in the predictable event that talking to the mullahs comes to nothing, as it has for more than 30 years. With his Syria policy, Obama is in effect telling the Islamic Republic that if engagement doesn’t work, if sanctions don’t make the regime reconsider, then he’ll do nothing to stop them.
But you already knew that, unless you were a low-information voter who reelected Obama because…Bain Capital! And lady parts!
McCain’s Middle East Madness
Comparing and contrasting the “sensible” senator versus the “extremist crazy” Michele Bachmann.
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Chuck Hagel’s historical delusions.
What an awful pick for SecDef. He’s unqualified on every level.
Developing Laser Weapons
Selling Out To Our Enemies
When it comes to hypocritically enriching himself to benefit those who would wish to do our nation harm, it’s like father, like son, though Al Gore Jr. has outdone his pater.
How The UN Created An Epidemic
…and covered it up.
The Defense Budget
How much can we cut?
In addition to the points that Megan makes, a lot of the Pentagon budget is wasteful, for the same reason that a lot of NASA’s is — because the lawmakers on the committees overseeing it like it that way. But the other problem is that we can’t always predict what we’ll need, and in that sense, defense spending is like advertising — only half of it is effective, but no one knows which half.
Four Months After The Benghazi Attack
On Tuesday, the Tunisian government released Ali Ani al-Harzi, a leading suspect in the attack who was taken into custody after fleeing Libya for Turkey and then sent to Tunisia. Officials say Harzi was released over Washington’s objections, as Tunis cited a “lack of evidence.” While the FBI eventually got access to Harzi, efforts to press him on what he knew were often blocked by bureaucratic objections by the Tunisian government and its court system. In December, the Tunisian branch of the Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia posted photos of people they claimed to be FBI agents who interviewed Harzi, according to the counterterrorism website Long War Journal. The U.S. intelligence community believes members of Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi participated in the attack four months ago.
While some U.S. officials feared that Harzi’s release was coming, Tunisian officials did not inform the U.S. government ahead of time.
It’s a good thing Obama has so improved our relations with other countries.
And then there’s this:
One source of frustration for U.S. intelligence community: the president’s decision to make the Benghazi probe a criminal investigation. While the CIA has an ever-changing list of suspects it dubs the “Benghazi attack network,” the drones and Special Operations teams that are used to hunt al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Yemen are not being used to track down Stevens’s killers. Instead the investigation is being led by the FBI, which relies on cooperation from local and national police in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt.
Brilliant.