US Joint Chiefs Chairman MichaelMullen on Iran Admiral MichaelMullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared on Fox News Sunday, the day before he is due to meet in Washington with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi for the third time in recent months. And he said a lot of things about Iran that ought to be encouraging for Ashkenazi. Let's go to the videotape, and then I'll tell you...
Avner Cohen asks an interesting question about a speech in Tel Aviv by Tony Cordesman. Cordesman told audiences that Admiral MichaelMullen, Chairman ot the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was delivering a message when he said that Israel did not have a green light to attack Iran: Cordesman is visiting Israel this week, and gave a lecture yesterday at Tel Aviv University and at Hebrew University on Sunday....
For the second consecutive month, more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than in Iraq. Nearly seven years after the war in Afghanistan began, June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops, and our force levels in the country are now at their highest since the war began. All of this, tragically, comes a few years after [...]
During a press conference in Pennsylvania today, New York Times reporter John Broder asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) if he shared the concern of “senior Pentagon officials” about the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and if the U.S. has the “resources to devote to fighting those enemies there given the surge [...]
Mullen: I Want ?A Healthy Dialogue With Iran? Because ?Engagement Would Offer An Opportunity? Last month, President Bush launched a political attack at Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and other Democrats while speaking before the Israeli parliament, saying that they favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with [...]
Last month, President Bush launched a political attack at Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and other Democrats while speaking before the Israeli parliament, saying that they favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals,” said Bush. “We have an obligation to call this what [...]
…and it’s time to state for the record, unapologetically, that is was a massive success: Admiral MichaelMullen said today that he expects to be able to recommend troop reductions in Iraq this fall, as security gains from the troop surge continue to hold. Mullen made his comments in a Pentagon press conference with Defense Secretary [...]
Source: [b]Bloomberg[/b] By Jonathan Ferziger July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's top military commander said he told U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon officials that both countries must be ready to use force to stop Iran's nuclear development program if diplomacy fails. ``We all reali...
Keep in mind that this is one day after we found out that the New York Times would not publish an op-ed written by John McCain because it did not mirror Obama’s point of view. Today, I present to you another example of suppression of free speech. Keep these two examples in mind each and [...]
The recruit for jihad across borders always proceeds along explicitly religious lines, with stress placed upon the supranational character of the Islamic umma, and upon the traditional Islamic idea that defensive jihad becomes obligatory upon each and every Muslim if a Muslim land is attacked. The fact that jihadists would travel to Afghanistan at this point, as they previously traveled to Iraq, Bosnia,...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral MichaelMullen, said Sunday a specific time frame for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, leading to "dangerous consequences.""Based on my time in and out of Iraq in recent months, I think the conditions-based assessments are the way to go and they're very solid. We're making progress and we can move...
The recruit for jihad across borders always proceeds along explicitly religious lines, with stress placed upon the supranational character of the Islamic umma, and upon the traditional Islamic idea that defensive jihad becomes obligatory upon each and every Muslim if...
Source: [b]Reuters[/b] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's top military adviser said on Sunday setting an unconditional two-year timetable for getting U.S. troops out of Iraq in two years would be dangerous. But Adm. MichaelMullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he wo...
