Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban. Share/Save Read More →

By Con Coughlin All it is going to take is a massive terror attack to teach President Obama that there is a world of difference between the politics of the campaign trail and those of high office. You have only to look at his stunning success in last year's election race to see that Mr Obama is the consummate campaign performer. Early in the contest I watched the then Democratic candidate in action... 

By Rick Moran Anyone who didn't believe that Obama's liberal idiocy on foreign policy wouldn't have real world consequences, I present exhibit "A" – the Taliban responding to the Administration's offer for "honorable reconciliation:" Share/Save Read More →

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at a U.N. conference on Afghanistan that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form of reconciliation." Share/Save Read More →

By Constant Brand U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged NATO members to jointly confront al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan where he said instability threatens all of the alliance's members equally. Appearing before NATO's top decision-making body, Biden solicited ideas to reverse a losing military strategy in Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama's policy to bring... 

President Barack Obama's Justice Department sided with the former Bush administration on Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, department lawyers said the Obama administration agreed that detainees at Bagram Air Base cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. Share/Save Read More →

By Amir Taheri NY POST – Sen. Barack Obama's plan to walk away from Iraq but in crease the US military role in Afghanistan may make political sense – satisfying his antiwar base while still coming off as forceful – but it's a terrible strategy for his country. First, there's no need to jettison the victory already won in Iraq – a victory that needs to be consolidated... 

By Jake Tapper  ABC NEWS – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his allies have been hitting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for not holding any hearings to examine the role of NATO in Afghanistan in his perch as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs. "He's never had a hearing," McCain said Tuesday, "so I am not surprised that all he has done... 

By ANN MARLOWE WSJ – Afghanistan needs many things, but two more brigades of U.S. troops are not among them. Barack Obama said: "We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there." Mr. Obama should have supported the surge in Iraq, but that doesn't mean that advocating one in Afghanistan makes sense. Share/Save Read More →

Is anyone paying attention to what Obama is saying? In his interview with CBS News, Obama says: Share/Save Read More →