Tag Archives: Iraq

Bush Criticizes Obama

Last Saturday, former President George W. Bush attended a fundraising event for the presidential campaign of his brother, Jeb Bush, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. At this meeting, former President Bush delivered a series of harsh criticisms of his successor Barack Obama’s record in the Middle East. Wealthy donors from the Republican Jewish […]

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Closing Guantanamo

One of President Barack Obama’s first actions after being sworn in as president in January of 2009 was to sign an executive order directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut down its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. This closure never happened, both because of Congress’s reluctance […]

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Obama’s ISIS Plan

While it has fallen out of the news cycle to some degree in recent months, the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State or ISIS has suddenly regained the media’s attention. With the incredibly barbaric and brutal murder of captured Jordanian fighter pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, and the reported death of American hostage Kayla Mueller, […]

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Military Command

On November 24, 2014, the United States Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, announced his retirement from his position. This makes him the third Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration to retire without serving a full term. Before Mr. Hagel served, both Leon Panetta and Robert Gates stepped down after serving just a few years […]

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