Washington, DC – Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to “news reports” on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hoards of print and broadcast “correspondents” rushed […]
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Friends and Enemies
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When the U.S. State Department announced this week that it finally is going to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, it was a nonevent for most of our countrymen. That’s because few Americans know how deadly the organization is. For that we can thank those at Foggy Bottom who […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, D.C. – First the good news. The war in Afghanistan is being won. As our FOX News team saw on our most recent trip through the length and breadth of the country, the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies are being defeated at nearly every turn. Though military operations and police actions are being […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesCamp Hansen, Helmand Province, Afghanistan – This austere U.S. Marine base in the Marjah District is headquarters for 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment – famous for action during World War II on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Dubbed “America’s Battalion,” the unit has adopted a new slogan in Afghanistan: “Front Toward Enemy” – the […]
Read more The Drawdown Begins
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesCamp Eggers, Afghanistan – Here on this NATO base – named in honor of Daniel W. Eggers, a U.S. Army special forces captain killed near Kandahar on May 29, 2004 – the president’s decision to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year is getting mixed reviews. Reactions from scores of […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesQuantico, VA – Here at this sprawling Marine Corps base south of our nation’s capital, nothing has changed since Osama bin Laden met his demise in Pakistan. Thousands of Marines here at the “Crossroads of the Corps” are still waking up at “Oh-Dark-Thirty,” going about their duties, running for miles, lifting weights and tossing each […]
Read more Killing Osama
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – It took nine years, seven months and 21 days to pinpoint the man who plotted, paid for and perpetrated the terror attacks of 9-11-01. When a U.S. Navy SEAL team finally found Osama bin Laden in the third-floor bedroom of a comfortable house in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, they killed him. […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesSan Antonio, TX – The world’s most famous Tele-prompter reader has lost his audience. For two years, Mr. Obama had the American electorate and world leaders eating out of the palm of his hand. At virtually every U.S. and overseas venue, he was welcomed by huge cheering throngs. His oratory was described as “magnetic,” “eloquent” […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesChicago, IL– According to pollsters and pundits, next Tuesday’s mid-term election for the 112th Congress is going to be a referendum on the nation’s economic travail. Since our FOX News “War Stories” team returned from Afghanistan three weeks ago, we have been deluged by reminders from so-called “mainstream media” outlets that the Clinton-era political axiom: […]
Read more On Winning
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesThird in a series. Helmand Province, Afghanistan – For reasons not altogether clear to me, only brief snippets of FOX News Channel’s broadcasts are carried on the satellite signals available on U.S. military installations here in Afghanistan. That means if I want to watch the news over here, it has to be one of the […]
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