As President Obama continues to vacillate, equivocate, procrastinate, perhaps even prevaricate, on what to do about troop levels and strategy in Afghanistan, seemingly being held hostage by the lunatic left of the Democrat Party, and his own inability to make a decision that should be in the long term interests of the United States and the Western world as opposed to political expediency, and now using...
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports: Sen. John Kerry and former Senator Chuck Hagel are among the keynote speakers slated to address the annual dinner of J Street, a controversial Israel lobby group accused of working against the Jewish state, while scores of lawmakers are backing out of the event amid news [...]
In his upcoming book, "Heart of a Patriot" , former Senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran Max Cleland unloads on his political nemeses and dishes some details on his friend Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. After the inauguration of George W. Bush, Cleland used to joke with colleagues that the nation was about to get "screwed" -- and during the Bush presidency he says...
Did you check out the line up in July Proceedings yet? Did you read the article published by Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley yet? Is Tom Ricks right or wrong with this comment ? Pretty near the top they quote Alfred T. Mahan, which seasoned Pentagoners know is a sign that the Navy is getting teed up to get hit long. (This is like when Gorby would quote Lenin, or Marc Antony would praise Julius...
President Barack Obama's first meeting next week with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a historic opportunity to set a course for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide, a group of some 100 international leaders said Thursday.
Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns is abandoning his doublewide trailer for a proper Senate office. Johanns has been using the trailer as his office since being sworn in early this year. It's parked in the courtyard of the Russell Senate Office Building. Now, he's getting an office inside the building.
Retired Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” weighed in on recent antics certain high-profile Republicans. He also criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney for claiming that the Obama administration has placed the nation in danger and noted that Cheney was partly responsible for the “mess” the Bush administration...
Last night on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow asked former Sen. Chuck Hagel about former Vice President Cheney's recent claims that President Obama is making the American people "less safe" by raising the "risk to the American people of another [terrorist] attack." Hagel called Cheney's comments "ridiculous" and "folly," concluding "I'm sorry the Vice...
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of International Law (ASIL) will hold its 103rd Annual Meeting March 25-28, 2009, at the Fairmont Hotel, 2401 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. The theme of this year's conference is "International Law as Law," and representatives from the new Obama administration's State Department and former US Senator Chuck Hagel will be among the speakers. A...
Last night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow asked former Sen. Chuck Hagel about former Vice President Cheney’s recent claims that President Obama is making the American people “less safe” by raising the “risk to the American people of another [terrorist] attack.” Hagel called Cheney’s comments “ridiculous” and “folly,” concluding...
A high-level bipartisan commission recommended Monday that the Obama administration reach out to Russia in a number of ways, putting NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine on hold and taking "a new look" at the planned missile shield in Eastern Europe, possibly even collaborating with Moscow on it.
The United States should seek Russia's close cooperation in dealing with Iran and solicit Moscow's participation or at least acquiescence to a missile defense system in Europe, a panel of former high-level American diplomats and members of Congress urged on Monday.
WASHINGTON -- The United States should seek Russia's close cooperation in dealing with Iran and solicit Moscow's participation or at least acquiescence to a missile defense system in Europe, a panel of former high-level American diplomats and members of Congress urged on Monday.