Charing explains why the government needs to do away with Selective Service altogether.
We’re at war with Arab countries, so the face of terrorism is an Arab face. If we were fighting in an African country, the face of terror would be that of the Nigerian underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab or the Somali-American Mohamed Osman Mohamud.
Former Secretary of State looks back on the Bush years.
by Charing Ball This morning, the New York Landmark Preservation Committee is meeting to vote on the landmark status of 45-47 Park Place, a five-story building which stands as a prominent example of the store and loft structures that dominated the dry goods warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan. As titillating as real estate preservation may […]
(CNN) — The Obama administration’s planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is proceeding “as promised” and should lead to an end of America’s combat mission there by the end of August, President Obama said Monday. Plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of this month are on […]
(The Fresh Xpress) — PROLOGUE (if you can call it that): Before you get into the letter, make sure to check out ‘The War Logs’, a series of previously-classified military documents outlining many inconsistencies in what the government has told us, and what is really going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. – via The New York […]
(The Nation) — What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth. As with Richard Nixon’s rage against the publication of the Pentagon Papers, our leaders are troubled not by the prospect of these revelations endangering troops […]
(HuffingtonPost.com) — President Barack Obama’s advisers plan to remove terms such as “Islamic radicalism” from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say. The change would be a significant shift in the National Security […]