"US troops in Afghanistan would cost over $1 billion per 1000 troops per year. People expect General Kiyani to show courage and overhaul his bunch first from dollar toxic generals in his ranks to save the very institution he is trying to protect? "

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As Obama visits, it's not a strong U.S. policy that'll provoke Beijing, but a weak one.

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Left's global drive for control The Obama administration's un-American attempt to vilify Fox News only increased the network's popularity. But this White House debacle can't be judged in isolation: There's a global leftwing assault on the freedom of information.

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Dr. Charles Krauthammer delivered a truly exceptional lecture at the Manhattan Institute: "Decline is a Choice". The premise of his lecture is that America's Decline is not a condition but a choice.

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The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.

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". . .Partly because Obama is so highly regarded outside the U.S., there has been a presumption that he is the victim of Republican opposition that has run amok (Congressman Joe Wilson's heckling during the health care speech was big news overseas).

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Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to sprawling Revolution Plaza on Sunday for an open-air "peace concert" headlined by Colombian rocker Juanes.

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The Iraqi journalist jailed for hurling his shoes at former US President George W Bush is to be freed on Monday - to an uncertain future. Muntadar al-Zaidi's release after nine months in prison will be celebrated by many across the Arab world to whom he has become a hero.

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Citing a congressional study released on Friday, the Times said the United States was involved in 68.4 percent of the global sales of arms. U.S.

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The Obama administration is using its brass knuckles to support Latin American thugs. O'Grady commented, "Mr. Obama apparently wants in on this leftie-fest. He ran for president, in essence, against George W. Bush. Mr. Bush was unpopular in socialist circles.

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The Afghan debate in the blogosphere is reaching new heights of late, mainly due to the recent Afghan elections and Admiral Mullen's comments concerning the deteriorating US position vis-à-vis the Taliban.

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The Middle East talks look like an act of grand displacement unless Obama stops giving Israel an unequal say...

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In Interview, Mullen Makes Then Undermines Case for Continuing Afghan War

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A US government body has put India on a watch list for failing to protect religious minorities, citing the Kandhamal attacks on Christians in 2008 and the Gujarat communal riots of 2002.

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Michael Barone wrote this, and I agree with all my heart that "we Americans tend to take the great strengths of our country for granted. In the hubbub of political debate, we concentrate on things that are allegedly wrong with America and lose sight of our great achievements.

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The Betrayal of Democracy

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A well analyzed, and powerful Op-Ed by Ralph Peters at the New York Post. Peters wrote, "assuming that everybody else, from Peru to Pakistan, is "just like us" and "wants the same things we do" is an old Washington sin.

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"Everyone knows that the Vice President has a serious problem filtering the things that come out of his mouth; yet it appears that President Obama and his team have decided that it would be more trouble than it's worth to keep him on a script. They should think again.

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WASHINGTON — Six months into the Obama administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended its foreign policy record, saying that despite some frustrations, the United States had begun to withdraw troops from Iraq, had built coalitions to pressure Iran and North  …

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"You know what this is for," Emilbek Kaptagaev recalled being told by the police officers who snatched him off the street. No other words, just blows to the head, then all went black. Mr.

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Obama went to Moscow desperate for the appearance of a foreign-policy success. He got that illusion -- at a substantial cost to America's security.

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The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.

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"Somehow, the formula that has been working for Barack Obama since early in 2007 suddenly seems to have gone cold. It is not enough simply to be him or to roll out Michelle and the girls (all of whom joined him in Moscow...unlike say, his top two State Department officials).

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"Change in the Middle East is urgently needed and long overdue, and there is hope that Barack Obama could be the one to bring change. But there is also a risk that the U.S. president, on the rebound from George W.

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Why is the U.S. not supporting the rule of law?By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY. All but a handful of my letters pleaded for international understanding of the threat to the constitutional democracy that Mr. Zelaya presented. One phrase occurred again and again: "Please pray for us."

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