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Hanging by a thread
As Iraq war formally ends this month, country is still struggling for stability

August 22, 2010  •  New York Daily News

The American fast-food chains are long gone from Camp Ramadi in Anbar Province. So, too, are the Iraqi souvenir stores near the "D-Fac" - that's army talk for "Dining Facility."

This camp, a flat, forsaken military base in a scorching desert on the outskirts of Anbar's capital, once among the most dangerous places in Iraq, has shrunk to less than a quarter of its original size.

More than half of the makeshift barracks in flimsy trailers now stand empty behind the thick cement T-walls that protect against explosives. Vehicles, too, are hard to come by. Many of them, along with transport helicopters, translators and high-end communications equipment, have been shipped to Afghanistan, President Obama's "essential" war.

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More Than 5 Reasons Why Israel Won't Strike Iran Anytime Soon

August 19, 2010  •  Fox News

History sometimes repeats itself in the Middle East, but not always. Twice before, Israel has attacked Arab nuclear reactors before they were loaded with the fuel rods that could have produced plutonium Pu 239 for an atomic bomb. Both strikes against Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 and Syria's North Korean-built reactor in 2007 were surprise attacks. In neither case did Israel receive Washington's blessing. In the case of Iraq, Israel didn't even warn its close friend, Ronald Reagan, in advance.

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Long Goodbye for Robert Gates
His Legacy Still Taking Shape

August 16, 2010  •  Fox News

It will be a long goodbye. Robert Gates confirmed today that he intends to leave his post as Secretary of Defense – at the end of 2011.

That is no surprise. The only Bush hold-over in the Obama Cabinet, Gates always vowed to quit before the end of President Obama's first term; he has been famously keen on returning home to the Pacific Northwest ever since he accepted this Mission Impossible of a job.

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Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse?

August 9, 2010  •  The Wall Street Journal

BAGHDAD — Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted, its soldiers and some of its police retrained. The infrastructure has been partially rebuilt. Iraq, with its 30 million people and the world's third-largest oil reserves, could one day be fabulously rich.

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The Justice Department Gets Serious About Terror

August 5, 2010  •  Fox News

This was no "one off," as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano so memorably described the young bomber who nearly blew up his plane over Detroit last Christmas.

This was a "network," a "deadly pipeline," said Attorney General Eric Holder as he unsealed four terrorism indictments against 14 people, most of them of Somali descent, including several American citizens, charging them with funneling funds and fighters to the Somali terrorist group, Al Shabab.

This was also the Justice Department's most serious public response to date to counter a threat that has been growing in the far-flung states of Minnesota, Alabama, and California.

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