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Analysis: One year after bin Laden's death, a new world
April 27, 2012 If Osama bin Laden were still alive today, one year after he was killed in a U.S. raid, he would hardly recognize the world he knew. Nor would he see the supposed "clash of civilizations" that he tried so hard to foment over two decades of violent jihad. Instead bin ...
Biden: Most powerful VP ever?
April 26, 2012 Joe Biden was never much good when it came to running for the top job. In fact, he was a disaster. Back in 1988, Biden dropped out ignominiously amid allegations of plagiarism. In 2008, when he thought he’d be a real contender after spending 36 years in the Senate, Biden ...
Obama economic team goes on offense
April 16, 2012 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Gene Sperling, the Obama administration’s two top economic officials, went on the offensive against Mitt Romney and the Republicans on Sunday, ridiculing the presumptive GOP nominee’s statements and defending the president’s record on jobs, growth and tax reform. But the two took different approaches on ...
Shootings likely to upend Afghanistan strategy
March 12, 2012 Recent events in Afghanistan, including Sunday’s horrific shooting of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier, are not just going to alter U.S. strategy there. They are very likely to upend it. Even before the latest tragedy, President Obama was trying to expedite his way out of that quagmire, which is ...
Gingrich would tap John Bolton for secretary of State
December 7, 2011 If he gets elected president, Newt Gingrich already has one certain battle with Congress on his hands: confirming his just-announced pick to be secretary of State, John Bolton, whom Senate Democrats filibustered in 2005, forcing George W. Bush to give him a recess appointment as ambassador to the United Nations. ...
Analysis: Obama’s Economy -- or Not?
August 15, 2011 President Obama was eager to meet real, suffering Americans in the troubled Midwest, and when he got there he promised "to do everything" he could to address the economic crisis that he had "inherited," one that he said was "as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression." ...
Government, S&P target credibility
August 8, 2011 The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have already revealed what their strategy toward Standard & Poor's will be now that the agency has stripped the U.S. government of its AAA rating: to destroy S&P's credibility. They can make a pretty good case. It's not just that S&P revealed its ...
Analysis: Defining down war
July 1, 2011 Each day for the last three months, NATO has issued a classified order dividing the ongoing air war in Libya-uhh, let's call it "mission"-into offensive and defensive operations. The latter category is America's job, and it is huge. It includes Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, which consists mainly of U.S. ...
Washington loses patience with counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
June 24, 2011 John Nagl is the kind of guy who brings to mind F. Scott Fitzgerald's wicked line in The Great Gatsby about people who succeed at such an early age that "everything afterward savors of anticlimax." A star at West Point and a Rhodes scholar, the native Nebraskan was only 37 ...
Bin Laden journal addresses future attacks, possible targets
May 11, 2011 A personal journal taken from Osama bin Laden's compound contains handwritten notes that are believed to be the terror chieftain's thoughts about future operations and possible targets, along with "musings on al Qaeda," a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The official, part of a U.S. national security team reviewing the ...
