By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
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"Showdown" is splashed in large red letters across the April cover of the conservative monthly Newsmax. Followed, in smaller letters, by "Iran's Plan for a Second Holocaust Must Be Stopped." And, in parentheses, in still smaller type, between the twin grim-looks of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, the cover story brackets the author "[by John Bolton]."
Pakistani airmen sabotaged their fighter jets to prevent them from participating in operations against militants along the border with Afghanistan, according to a leaked U.S. Embassy cable.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' July 2 memorandum to all top Pentagon and military leaders is part of multiyear effort to tighten controls on information provided to the media by limiting reporters' access by officials, both military and civilian.
WASHINGTON (AP) Gen. David Petraeus said that by September he could recommend further troop reductions in Iraq if security continues to improve.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Senior U.S. officials offered broad support to an embattled President Pervez Musharraf yesterday while exhorting him to ensure that elections due this year in Pakistan were free and fair.
U.S. forces in Iraq are stemming the flow of foreign al Qaeda terrorists into the country, the commander of the U.S. Central Command told a Senate panel yesterday.
U.S. forces in Iraq are stemming the flow of foreign al Qaeda terrorists into the country, the commander of the U.S. Central Command told a Senate panel yesterday.
China's large-scale military buildup is being monitored closely and Beijing has not explained the goal of the modernization, senior defense and military leaders said yesterday.
They echo what three former U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commanders - Gen. Anthony Zinni, Gen. John Abizaid and Adm. William J. Fallon - have said on the record in recent years, namely that bombing Iran's nuclear facilities would be a grave geopolitical mistake.
"We have a long way to go," he said of U.S. efforts to engage China's secretive military.
