What, Me Worry?
Josh Rogin asks NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen if the alliance has any concerns about the proposed sale of several Mistral-class amphibious assault ships by France to the Russian Navy. The answer:
"This is not NATO business, this is a bilateral question between France and Russia," he said, "So as such, NATO is not engaged in this."
As the [...]
Here’s Exactly What We Don’t Need
One issue where we differ with probably 90% of our readers is the “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy for gays serving in military service. It was enunciated in 1993 by Bill Clinton, later endorsed by George W. Bush and John McCain, along with many conservatives. I suspect that for many conservatives, DADT [...]
War Is Hell — Not Litigation
WASHINGTON — The editor of the venerable conservative
weekly Human Events is causing an admirable
ruckus. Jed Babbin, once deputy undersecretary of defense in the
administration of George H.W. Bush and now the editor of the
oldest conservative periodical in the land, is petitioning
Secretary of Defense Robert [...]
Secretary Gates: 116 out of 211 Gitmo Detainees Cleared for Transfer
According to press accounts, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told a Senate hearing today that the Obama administration has identified 116 Guantanamo detainees (out of the remaining 211) who can be transferred.
That’s an incredibly high number - much higher than the numbers that were reported earlier this year. And given the Obama administration’s past transfer [...]
Skelton: Holder Didn’t Really Convince Me
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has taken another shot at the administration’s war on terror policies with a letter yesterday to AG Eric Holder and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates questioning the decision to put the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks on trial in federal criminal courts rather than military tribunals:
Skelton, a [...]
Did the Bush Administration Sit for 8 Months on a Request for Troops?
In the new issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Stephen F. Hayes debunks two Obama administration talking point on Afghanistan: “First, that the Bush administration had no real Afghanistan policy and failed for eight years to ask the important questions about the war there. And second, that the Bush administration ignored requests from commanders on the [...]
