5 Myths About the Iraq Troop Withdrawl

Ken Pollack, Washington Post
Early Thursday, less than two weeks before the president's Aug. 31 deadline for ending American combat operations in Iraq, the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division crossed the border from Iraq into Kuwait. With the departure of this last combat brigade, the U.S. military presence in Iraq is now down to 50,000 troops, fewer than at any time since the 2003 invasion. The shift offers a useful moment to take stock of both how much has been accomplished and how much is left to be done in what is fast becoming our forgotten war.As of this month, the United States no longer has combat...

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Obama's Four Disasters

Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Saturday,August 21, 2010
He's No Muslim, He's a Progressive
And he's a golfer, too.
BY William Kristol August 30 - September 6, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 47
"Ike's not a Communist, he's a golfer." That was Russell Kirk's succinct response to the claim by John Birchers in the 1950s that President Eisenhower was a Communist.

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Obama's Four Disasters
Heckuva job, Mr. President.
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The New Republic: Great Books Or Great Leaders?

Adam Kirsch of The New Republic asks if politicians really learn anything from literature. He says the advent of Barack Obama, who many writers believed was "on their side" has shown that no statesman can be on the same side as the writer, because the virtues of the man of action are different from the virtues of the writer.

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