The AFP News Agency reports that Iraq’s main Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc will rejoin the government led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. This is a significant event because the Sunni Arabs have boycotted the parliament for a year, in protest what they saw as lack of sufficient reconcialiation efforts by the Shiite dominated government. Quoting […]

Today Barack Obama delivered a long, rambling speech on “national security.” This is the first in a series of posts that will analyze his remarks. . After claiming to have been inspired by America’s initial efforts to win the cold war, Senator Obama referred to the the 9-11 attacks: The attacks of September 11 brought […]

Last week Senator Obama held two press conferences in one day to discuss withdrawal from Iraq. Since then, the media herd has obsessed on whether he committed a certified flip-flip. Obama’s responses to the press weren’t a flip-flop, they were a loafer; intellectually lazy equivocations. His position is dangerous because he appears to believe that […]

The last time the anti-war left convinced America to “end” a war, by abandoning the people who believed we were their allies and had been loyal to us was 1975. Virtually all American troops had come home from Vietnam, after training the South Vietnamese army to take over defense of their country, with the support […]

The Classic Liberal alerted us to this video of Barack Obama promising to save Billions in “wasteful spending” by eroding the effectiveness and capability of the US military, including this pledge: I will slow our development of future combat systems. We thought Liberty Works readers should know what the Senator was referring to. Future Combat […]

Three years ago there was a lot of news about military recruiting because the services failed to meet their monthly quotas several times.  Lately, there has been no news.  The media herd doesn’t report recruiting statistics when the news is good. The services have delivered their April recruiting statistics.  The Air Force and Navy met […]

Half the population of Iraq is under 18 and those children and teens have experienced a lot of interaction with our troops. The future leaders of Iraq will have received medical care, school supplies, tens of thousands of soccer balls and warm friendship from the best men and women America has to offer. In this […]