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Veteran Journalist Barbara Walters called Petraeus a "true American hero" and placed him top of her annual list of the 10 most fascinating people of 2010 in a TV broadcast on Thursday. Network ABC said on Friday that 12.2 million Americans watche…

Bill King trots out another old favorite, conservative chestnut this week by once again suggesting that perhaps people who show up at the polls to vote should bring along some sort of identification. And, anticipating the normal progressive push…

An unusual split has opened between conservative Republicans and the American Military leadership over the U.S.-Russia Nuclear Treaty, with current and former generals urging swift passage but politicians expressing far more skepticism. This St…

Document 8 [pdf] contains notes of then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld prepared for a meeting with CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy Franks in Tampa, Fl., on November 27, 2001. It shows a plan to pull a lot of Troops out of Afghanistan and put…

National Security Archive: Washington, D.C., September 22, 2010 – Following instructions from President George W. Bush to develop an updated war plan for Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered   CENTCOM Commander Gen. Tommy …

This argument has been going on for years. We have addressed it here many Times. What Obama's approach essentially amounts to is an attempt to pretend that things are other than what they are. As such, Obama's approach is doomed to fail. "Obama a…

By NATHAN HODGE Agence France-Presse/Getty Images An Mi-17 Helicopter prepares to land during a flight test for Afghan Air Force pilots, led by the U.S. Air Force in Kandahar, in October. Washington—The Obama Administration\'s recent lift…