May 3, 2012 M Catharine Evans In yet another sin of omission, the national press corps has failed to report that more than twice as many U.S. military service people were killed in Afghanistan since Obama took office than in six and a half years of the Bush administration. Coalition Military Fatalities By Year Year [...]

By ANDREW MALCOLM Posted 05/02/2012 08:18 AM ET As usual with this president, Obama’s trip to and speech from Afghanistan had way more to do with politics than any real substance. Seven thousand miles, one way, is a long journey to share war remarks with countrymen that he should have and could have shared back home [...]

President campaigns at the expense of the nation and national security By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday night. President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national security been so twisted to [...]

By James Carafano Published May 02, 2012 FoxNews.com Speaking in Kabul last night, President Obama painted a vision of a new era for Afghanistan and the U.S.  He spoke of  “a future in which Afghans are responsible for the security of their nation, … the war ends, and a new chapter begins.” And, he gave [...]

Published May 03, 2012 FoxNews.com The 10-year security agreement signed this week by President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is filled with fuzzy language and loopholes — and stands as more of a guide than a contract for the U.S.-Afghan relationship in the post-war years.  The deal coincided with a speech by Obama from [...]

May 2, 2012 RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia repeated on Wednesday that it would not tolerate threats to the Gulf Arab states’ sovereignty, the latest warning to Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to an island claimed by both Tehran and the United Arab Emirates. The warning, the third in as many weeks by a [...]

By KAREEM FAHIM and MAYY EL SHEIKH Published: May 2, 2012 CAIRO — As least 11 people were killed after assailants attacked protesters staging a sit-in near Egypt’s Ministry of Defense early on Wednesday, setting off hours of clashes that threw the coming presidential election into disarray as at least five candidates announced the suspension [...]

By RANDY KREIDER May 2, 2012 The men who launched al Qaeda’s English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but “Inspire” magazine lives on without them — and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires in America with timed [...]

The President gives his first major Afghan remarks since June. May 1, 2012 WSJ President Obama has been in the political equivalent of an undisclosed location on Afghanistan for nearly a year, so what a pleasant surprise Tuesday to see him emerge on the subject . . . in Afghanistan. The troops were no doubt [...]

May 1, 2012 Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” raved about a speech President Obama made to American troops during his surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. “I imagine being a soldier over there — this is what you want to hear,” Matthews said, as if he was wearing military fatigues. Matthews also [...]