By Adm. James A. Lyons
There is an urgent need for full disclosure of what has become the “Benghazi Betrayal and Cover-up.” The Obama national security team, including CIA, DNI and the Pentagon, apparently watched and listened to the assault on the U.S. consulate and cries for help but did nothing. Published October 28, 2012
By Col. Ken Allard
The Benghazi debacle may yet make Mitt Romney president. Barely 10 days before the election, the persistent whiff of scandal surrounding Barack Obama exploded into the banner headlines of a cover-up – at least among certain press outlets. Everything changed Friday afternoon with the stunning revelations by Fox News that CIA operatives defending the embattled consulate in Benghazi, Libya, called three times for emergency assistance while the attack was in progress. Each time, they were shamefully turned down. Published October 27, 2012
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
The attacks in Benghazi and Cairo were the result of massive intelligence failure at the top levels of government. There were many indications that extremists were targeting U.S. diplomats in Libya and Egypt months before this year's Sept. 11 attacks. These deadly plans had nothing to do with a low-budget, anti-Islamic film. The Obama administration simply failed to connect the dots. Published September 16, 2012
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
One of the most important challenges we face as a free people is understanding the true nature of - and threat posed by - a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call Shariah. So it would seem to be good news that a $3 million public education campaign is being launched nationwide to "clarify" what Shariah is. Published April 2, 2012
By Wayne Simmons and Kerry Patton - The Washington Times
Southern Command's chief, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, recently briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the growing threat of Iranian-backed terror networks in South America. His insight contradicts Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's most recent national threat assessment, which failed to mention anything about Iranian proxies. Published March 20, 2012
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American troops will soon leave Afghanistan. What could become a key policy question for the 2012 election is, what will happen after they depart? Published March 19, 2012
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The Obama administration's strategy in Afghanistan is collapsing and cannot be saved. A new strategy is necessary to cope with the coming Afghan civil war. Published March 15, 2012
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Americans - left, right, Democrats and Republicans - are all sick of thankless nation-building in the Middle East. Yet democratization was not our first choice but rather a last resort after earlier failures. The United States long ago supplied Afghan insurgents, who expelled the Soviets after a decade of fighting. Then we left. The country descended into even worse medievalism under the Taliban. So, after removing the Taliban, who had hosted the perpetrators of Sept. 11, 2001, we promised in 2001 to stay on. Published March 8, 2012
By Adm. James A. Lyons - The Washington Times
The recent contrived uproar over the inadvertent burning of the Koran led by corrupt Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his controlling mullahs should be seen for what it is: a power-play tactic to make our military forces more submissive to the dictates of Islam, a concept they call "dhimmitude." Published March 8, 2012
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Syrian strongman Bashar Assad might be a war criminal. The question is how many more civilians he has to kill to convince her. Published March 1, 2012
By Andrew P. Napolitano - The Washington Times
On June 2, 2009, a janitor in an office building in New Brunswick, N.J., noticed what he thought was terrorist-related literature and sophisticated surveillance equipment in an office he had been assigned to clean. He told his boss, who called the local police, who notified the FBI. Later in the day, the FBI and the New Brunswick police broke into the office and discovered five men busily operating the equipment. Published March 1, 2012
By Mike Huckabee - The Washington Times
I have just returned from Israel, where I spent 10 days and had the opportunity to visit with people from the prime minister to street market vendors in Jerusalem's Old City and gained perspectives ranging from Knesset members and rabbis to Arab Israelis, Christian Israelis and Muslim merchants. I can attest firsthand that the threat of Iran's government to "wipe Israel off the face of the map" is taken far more seriously than in the Obama administration, where the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey, spoke for the president by saying that "Iran is a rational actor." Published March 1, 2012
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has bemoaned the politicization of the current chaos in Afghanistan. She has yet to raise that objection against the Obama administration's crowing about the death of Osama bin Laden. Published February 27, 2012
Unconscionable. Politicizing. A slap in the face. Those were the kinds of phrases the left deployed against President George W. Bush to suggest he was exploiting the memory of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. These same voices are now giddy with delight at the prospect of President Obama's "mission accomplished" visit to Ground Zero on Thursday. Such hypocrisy is par for the course. Published May 4, 2011
By Ted Nugent
I don't support burning the Koran any more than I support someone holding a blowtorch to a Michael Moore fraudumentary. If you don't want to read the Koran or watch Mr. Moore's fraudumentaries, don't. Published September 17, 2010
When a man is apprehended with a cache of weapons, body armor, a map of a military installation and jihadist personal effects, the natural response of most Americans is to assume the situation is terrorist-related. The Obama administration says otherwise. Published February 1, 2010
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When the United States imposed sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s, it was done for sound moral reasons. There are even more important reasons why sanctions against Iran are needed today: If it succeeds in developing nuclear weapons - and it is strongly committed to doing so - world peace surely will be threatened. That is why I joined with Christian leaders in the fall in signing a letter to Congress calling for sanctions and a boycott of arms sales to Iran. Regrettably, President Obama has shown little interest in supporting this effort. In his State of the Union address this week, Iran was barely a footnote. Published January 28, 2010
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Andre Maurois once said, "If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny." So seems to be the case with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Published January 28, 2010
Illustration by Walt Handelsman of Newsday
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