I’ve been wondering for a while now what exactly Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, meant when he told the New York Times that there was a “government in… Continue Reading
By Bill Fisher Last week, a federal judge ruled that the families of two men who died in detention at Guantanamo couldn’t sue the government because their imprisonment as enemy combatants had been approved by a Combat Review Status Tribunal… Continue Reading
Much has been made of the divisive messages emerging from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which continues through Saturday, but an event–Jihad: The Political Third Rail—co-sponsored this morning at CPAC by the Freedom Defense Initiative brought a panel together… Continue Reading
This week saw the publication of a two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine purporting to expose the machinations of the “Iran lobby” in Washington. The author, Lee Smith, is apparently not the great baseball closer, but rather a former reporter… Continue Reading
President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, has a long history both inside and outside of government as a respected realist. But comments made by him on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Monday highlight the shift to the ideological… Continue Reading