From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Karzai also said there would be no progress in the nine-year-long campaign while insurgents still had safe havens in Pakistan. His comments have intensified the debate about whether the July 2011 milestone outlined by Washington was feasible or had encouraged rebels to believe they could hold on until foreign troops start leaving. [...]

From Right Wing News: If one can believe a word Senator John Kerry (D, Mass) says, the United States is launching efforts to negotiate with Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. “I can report without being specific that there are efforts under way. They are serious and I completely agree with that fundamental premise — and so does [...]

From Right Wing News: No one should have been surprised Friday when Barack Hussein Obama came out at a Ramadan dinner (attended by open supporters of Islamic terrorism) in favor of a giant mosque at Ground Zero to celebrate the Muslim triumph of 9/11. We all knew whose side he was on from the beginning, which is what [...]

From Right Wing News: At Wall Street Journal (via Daily Caller): WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama defended the plan to build a mosque near the site of the 2001 terror attacks in New York, telling Muslim guests at a Ramadan dinner at the White House that the nation’s commitment to freedom of religion “must be unshakable.” RTWT. The White [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: In his haste to withdraw America’s remaining combat troops from Iraq, President Barack Obama appears to have overlooked one rather vital consideration. The Iraqis are desperate for them to stay. Iraq might be a very different place today from the country that was oppressed by Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, but it still has some [...]

From NewsMax.com: From indefinite detention of terror suspects, to closed military commissions, low transparency, and targeted drone hits: Barack Obama’s administration and its security stands have raised eyebrows of many of those to his own left. Indeed, some fear he is following in the footsteps of his predecessor George W. Bush, a national security hardliner. [...]

From World Net Daily: A religion adviser to President Obama has close ties to the imam who wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. The two have been documented together discussing America as “the ideal place for a renewal of Islam,” WND has learned. In February, Obama named a Chicago Muslim, [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The 13-minute audio message, in English, comes days after the US Treasury department put Anwar al-Awlaki on its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. “If George W. Bush is remembered as being the president who got America stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s looking like Obama wants to be remembered as the president [...]

From World Net Daily: In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama’s “borderline criminal” activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator. Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges [...]

From Right Wing News: One of the more bizarre tics of liberal thinking on foreign policy is that they believe everyone in the world is basically just like us. They believe they have roughly the same hopes, dreams, concerns and way of looking at the world. So, since they believe they think the way we [...]

From CNSNews.com: The Obama administration’s reluctance to acknowledge and confront the religious motivation behind Islamist terrorism is not helping the counter-terror effort, leading experts warn in a new report. The administration’s recently released National Security Strategy (NSS) defines the enemy as “al-Qaeda and its terrorist affiliates,” but Washington Institute for Near East Policy report argues [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: When is a timeline not really a timeline? When the President says so. See GITMO, Healthcare, etc…now add Afghanistan. At a press conference today, President Obama said of his Afghanistan withdrawal timeline, “We didn’t say we’d be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us. We said we’d begin a [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Doug Powers skewered Obama’s odious 9/11-BP oil spill analogy the other day — setting the Soros-bots at Media Matters into a fit over “right-wing media misrepresentation” of the remarks. But it isn’t just “right-wing media” in America taking offense. From the London Daily Mail: British families of 9/11 victims described Barack Obama as ‘cruel’ yesterday [...]

From Right Wing News: A shockingly unsurprising and completely unexpectedly expected report Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other [...]

From The Washington Times: During questioning before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, a visibly nervous Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. tried valiantly not to utter the expression “radical Islam.” The twisting began when Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, asked whether the men behind three recent terrorist incidents – the Fort Hood massacre, the [...]

From FOX News: As federal authorities continue to investigate the failed Times Square car bombing, New York lawmakers are lobbing accusations at the Obama administration of “short-changing” anti-terror funding there. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y says the Department of Homeland Security is giving the city $111 million for mass transit security, a 27 percent cut from [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: It is not only New York’s early evening theatre-goers who have reason to be thankful for the incompetence of the man who attempted to blow up Times Square. Barack Obama’s reputation for being a lucky president has been further enhanced – he might, after all, have been dealing with the horrific aftermath of [...]

From RenewAmerica.com: President Obama and ex-President Clinton are inadvertently stumbling toward the intersection of two seemingly unrelated events. That combination of circumstances could blow the lid off a huge cover-up of America’s biggest 20th-century terrorist attack. 1 — Clinton rhetoric This past week marked the 15th anniversary of the bombing that killed 168 innocent Americans [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: There are links between terrorist attacks, job losses, and the health care legislation that is being completed behind closed doors: 1) A massive failed bureaucracy didn’t protect Flight 253 from a would-be bomber, so why expect that an even-larger bureaucracy can protect our health? 2)With 10% unemployment and 85,000 more jobs [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice. The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said [...]