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Almost nine years after the 9/11 attacks, the United States has yet to confront the threat posed by the extremist and irreconcilable wing of Islam. Former Speaker of the House and AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich will warn that now is the time to awaken from self-deception about the nature of our enemies and rebuild a bipartisan commitment, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to defend America. Drawing on the lessons of Camus and Orwell, Gingrich will describe the dangers of a wartime government that uses language and misleading labels to obscure reality.
Update: Here’s a 6 minute “highlight” from the speech.
I thought these were moonbats when they did it against GWB, and I still think they’re wingnuts when they rail against Obama.
While I’m passionately against almost all of our president’s economic policies and most of his foreign policy, I believe he’s doing the right thing with regard to Afganistan. But, even if I didn’t support it, these kinds of “demonstrations” aren’t justified.
Here’s Anti-War group ANSWER is not giving Obama a pass for breaking his pledge to bring the troops home. One of the many lies that was told just to get elected.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson today intensified his party’s criticism of President Obama’s long deliberation over policy in Afghanistan, announcing that Obama’s delay signals that “the war has been lost” and that nothing the president now does will “make any difference.” by Ben Smith of Politico.
Thank god for Dick Cheney. More than anyone I can think of, he has the courage and the intelligence, to try to set the record straight on Obama’s dissembling on Afghanistan and TWOT.
Vice President Dick Cheney received the Center’s Keeper of the Flame Award. He was introduced by Senator Jon Kyl and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
I have believed in the power of the goddess Nemesis (“dispenser of dues”), ever since I was introduced to the concept as a teen-ager studying classics, especially in the texts of Hesiod, Herodotus, and Sophocles.
Some of you know her also as a variant of eastern Karma, or the folk notion of ‘what comes around, goes around’, or the now common ‘ain’t payback a bitch’? We all agree on the symptoms: overweening success and surfeit (koris) lead to hubris (gratuitous arrogance), which in turn promotes destructive behavior (atê), that at last calls you to the attention of divine Nemesis—who ensures your ruin. At Rhamnous on the Attic coast there is a beautiful temple to the goddess, proof of her ubiquity and power.
Obama as all-knowing Oedipus
As sure as sun rises, you readers knew that, as early as 2007, Obama’s fiery rhetoric about the disaster in Iraq and the good war in Afghanistan was not only disingenuous, but would come lurking back to haunt him—especially given the efforts of the talented David Petraeus, and the myriad challenges of the age-old tribalism in Afghanistan.
