Obama’s Exit Strategy

If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush's wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by mid-2011 and the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan will, on that date,...

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Obama’s War: The Reaction

I'm actually pretty surprised to see that many liberals and progressives are not climbing on board Obama's war wagon – notably Rachel Maddow, who made a stinging criticism of the escalation by comparing the rhetoric of the Bush administration and that of the New...

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Victory at Last!

[Note for Readers: Last week, I wrote an address for the president, "The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)," which got a fair amount of attention. Now that the president has given a far more predictable speech, I thought some of you might still be...

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Thursday: 16 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded

Updated at 5:04 p.m. EST, Dec. 3, 2009 At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded in new violence today. In one attack, a significant bombing targeted a police official just north of Baghdad. Also, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi is willing to discuss the elections law impasse ahead of a Sunday deadline, when he will likely extend his current veto of the bill.
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Wedneday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 18 Wounded

Updated at 8:22 p.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2009 At least three Iraqis were killed and 18 were wounded in violence across central Iraq. Most of the wounded were from a previously reported incident, but the casualty figures were revised. The rest of the wounded and one of the dead were from a U.S. attack on a Kurdish security force in Diyala.
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Obama’s War Speech:
An Unconvincing Flop

Untitled Document After 92 days of waiting for the Word from on high, the nation received its marching orders from our commander-in-chief – and it was a flop of major proportions. As his West Point audience looked on disdainfully – applauding only twice, and then...

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