Did Bush authorize the Pakistani’s to airlift Bin Laden out of the country? Well maybe not Bin Laden, but certainly some of his associates seem to have gotten out that way. American intelligence officials and high-ranking military officers said that Pakistanis were indeed flown to safety, in a series of nighttime airlifts that were approved [...]
A recent NY Times article says this: “In Afghanistan, the biggest lesson we learned in our tactical information operations — the radio and TV broadcasts — was the importance in explaining, `Why are we here?’ ” a senior American military officer said. “The majority of Afghanis did not know that Sept. 11 occurred. They didn’t [...]
There’s so much chest-thumping, so many alarums about Iraqi menace, that I sometimes feel that the only patriotic thing to do is to invade Iraq and plow salt into its soil. So it’s useful to conjure a conservative war hero like Dwight Eisenhower and consider what he would do if he were president today. After [...]