The Long War

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• You Are Too, Dickweed

  
  Op For — Authority: 130
  "America is a legitimate target." And this is the sort of person we want to try in a civilian court, or release and send back to his home country? Sometimes I swear we havent learned a damn thing. Weve quoted LtCol Jeff Cooper before, and hes always worth quoting again ... "The enemy cannot be taught to like us ...
  7 hours ago

• The terrorists seem to be using the Intertubes

  
  Brain Shavings — Authority: 103
  DefenseTech thinks its now time for pre-emptive cyber attacks on jihadist networks. Gosh, what an original idea .
  15 hours ago

• Counter-terrorism After “The End” of the War on Terror

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 624
  The NyTimes has a preview of its upcoming Magazine featuring Peter Barker’s main article on Counter-terrorism in the Obama administration.  It’s an excellent piece, worth the entire read.  There’s a great deal in there, but one of the leitmotifs is the relationship between Obama and Bush on this topic. ...
  2 days ago

• DCExaminer Morrning Email Blast

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 493
  TODAYS WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL SECTION HIGHLIGHTS Obama is moving America right Examiner Editorial "Only a fourth of all Americans approve of the direction Obama and Congress are taking the country, according to a Gallup survey. A similarly dismal proportion approve of the job being done by Congress under the ...
  2 days ago

• Who Is the President’s Enemy? Hint, It’s Not The Guys Trying to Blow Stuff Up.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  Maybe I was wrong about the Obama administration’s willingess to respond with strength and speed to enemy attacks. My mistake was in assuming that the people the White House considers enemies are the same ones I do.For example, I think Islamists who want to kill Americans by the planeload are the enemy. The Obama ...
  6 days ago

• More on That Useless Commission and Rolling Heads

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  I want to draw your attention to a couple posts that amplify points I made in yesterday’s post on the SpeedoBomber and the utter ridiculousness of the 9/11 Commission and all Congressional hearings of the past eight years. Ed Morrissey asks the same question I asked, “How’s that 9/11 Commission reorganization ...
  6 days ago

• What on Earth Was That Whole 9/11 Commission For, Anyhow?

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  I distinctly remember Congress saying it was all over the whole “connecting the dots” thing just a couple or three years ago. Surely — surely! — the 9/11 Commission amounted to more than “Blame George W. Bush”, right? I mean, Jamie Gorelick wasn’t up there just for show and to do a nice little ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. soldier killed, 2 Italians injured when Afghan soldier opens fire at military base

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  LA Times Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - An Afghan soldier opened fire on foreign troops today at a military base in western Afghanistan, killing an American soldier and wounding two Italian troops, a senior Afghan commander said. The incident — unusual but not unprecedented — could heighten an already ...
  1 week ago

• Finally, The First Duffer Is Dragged to the Mike to Inform America He’ll Deal With “Alleged” Terrorism. Or Something.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  I didn’t get to hear President Obama’s reluctant statement on the SpeedoBomber, but I read it here (via memeorandum) and I entirely agree with Dan Riehl. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more uninspired, bored, “Oh God how fast can I read this so I can go back outside and play” statement from this President ...
  1 week ago

• Napolitano Fiddles While Obama Sunburns

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  Remember how yesterday Janet Napolitano said that our airline security system worked because the city of Detroit wasn’t pummeled by the flaming wreckage of a jet airplane? Well, she’s changed her mind (via Jonah Goldberg). The new story isn’t “the system worked” but “the system did not work in this ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t Worry, Folks. We’ve Outsourced Homeland Security to the Dutch.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 563
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard that an Islamist, acting on orders from al-Qaeda in Yemen, tried to blow an airplane over Detroit. He was unsuccessful because 1) al-Qaeda shops for its bomb-detonation instructions out of Wile. E. Coyote’s ACME catalog, and 2) a Dutch filmmaker pounced on him and gave him a good ...
  1 week ago

• Tiny Estonia keen to make large contribution in Afghanistan fight

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By Heath Druzin , Stars and Stripes Slideshow NAD ALI DISTRICT, Afghanistan — An hour earlier, the tiny patrol base had been rocked by the low thud to which the soldiers here have become grimly accustomed. It was the fatal sound of a comrade tripping an insurgent bomb. Silence hung over the normally chatty ...
  1 week ago

• Gitmo detainee implicated in Red Cross murder transferred to Afghanistan

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By Thomas Joscelyn The US government transferred an Afghan implicated in the killing of a Red Cross worker from Guantanamo to his home country last week. The former Gitmo detainee, Abdul Hafiz, was reportedly captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan in April 2003. That raid targeted suspected terrorists ...
  1 week ago

• Update: Health Care Bill Passes Second Test in Senate This Morning

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
    CNSNews (Update: Two down and one to go: The health care bill passed another 60-vote test in the Senate Tuesday morning. Democrats started voting at sunrise, voting 60-39 to shut off debate on Majority Leader Harry Reid’s version of the bill. An earlier vote to approve a 400-page package of changes that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bombs not away:A’stan rules put troops at risk

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By NOAH SHACHTMAN As part of his push to win over the people of Afghanistan, top US Gen. Stanley McChrystal in July abolished air attacks in all but the most dire of circumstances. But that ban is having all kinds of ugly and unexpected consequences. US troops are paying a tough price for it. Consider the running ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Real Gitmo: What I saw at America’s best detention facility for terrorists

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By  Thomas Joscelyn Guantánamo Bay, Cuba Shortly after 5 A.M., a detainee with an uneven voice sings the call to prayer. After a few bars, a second detainee joins in by sounding out another hymn. "That’s unusual," a tower guard who looks bored after a few months on the job remarks. "Usually, just one of them ...
  2 weeks ago

• Current U.S. Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan Problematic

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
    William Mayer The response to the administration’s much delayed announcement regarding increased troop levels in Afghanistan has been predictable, with opinion divided predominantly along ideological lines and less concern devoted to matters of military necessity. Generally, the left hates the idea ...
  2 weeks ago

• Super Wimps and Gutless Wonders

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  Eric Bleicken Editor’s note: Rules of engagement ( via Wikipedia ): In military or police operations, the rules of engagement (ROE) determine when, where, and how force shall be used. Such rules are both general and specific, and there have been large variations between cultures throughout history. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taliban to release video of captured US soldier

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By Bill Roggio Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, from the July 2009 propaganda tape The Taliban will release a new video of captive US soldier Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, according to a trusted source. The video is reportedly titled "One of Their People Testified." Bergdahl was captured by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Analysis:U.S. troops must watch and wait as Iraqi violence spikes

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 157
  By Michael Gisick , Stars and Stripes BAGHDAD — Continued bombings in central Baghdad this week, following massive blasts last week, appeared to lend troubling credence to U.S. warnings of increased violence during the run-up to March 7 national elections. But with the U.S. beginning to reduce troop levels ahead ...
  2 weeks ago

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