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...Obama has made some mistakes on Afghanistan, and so has the military, but having a six-month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which...
...grumble about Palin and the general embarrassment she engendered for the GOP. By all accounts, McCain - who declined to include Palin on a list of potential 2012 candidates during a Tonight Show appearance in April - is dreading what Palin might say in Going Rogue, her book due out next month. "The part I'm looking forward to most is the part where it energized our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls," McCain told a crowd at a recent Washington conference. "The part I am looking forward to least is some of the disagreements that took place...
McCain can still be an irritant to both sides. During a private GOP lunch last month, McCain ripped into Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top GOP appropriator, who has long been McCain's archrival on earmarks. (As is his custom, Cochran remained stoic throughout the ordeal.) Just a month after the death of his friend Ted Kennedy, McCain took to the floor and railed against a $20 million earmark for a center for the study of the Senate in Kennedy's name at the University of Massachusetts. "I can't let my affection for Senator Kennedy affect my principles about...
Indeed, rather than distance themselves from Iran, the Syrians recently gave the greenlight for Iran to expand its embassy in Damascus, already Iran's largest in the region. And the close ties between Iran and Syria were visible last month at a Quds Day celebration at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus in September. The holiday has its origins in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution in Iran, when Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to be a day to protest the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem. The keynote speaker...
...Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo Chávez impishly asked, "So how's the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb." Chávez was joking, but few were laughing outside Caracas and Tehran. Ever since Chávez announced last month that he was seeking Russia's help to develop nuclear energy in Venezuela - and especially since Sanz turned heads a couple of weeks ago by disclosing that Iran is helping Venezuela locate its own uranium reserves - the South American nation and its socialist, anti-U.S. government have become...