News and Opinion See (1) Anton Troianovski (Berlin) and Carol E. Lee (in Bénouville, France), “Mistrust Persists in Ukraine Meetings,” Wall Street Journal, June 6,…
Francois Hollande’s Dinner Diplomacy and France’s Undercutting of the West For a droll account of French President Francois Hollande’s dinner plans Thursday evening in Paris,…
Revised March 1, 2012 For earlier articles on Syria by The Trenchant Observer, see the Articles on Syria page. Syrian tank firing in Homs “So,…
The newspapers will be filled for days with information and views regarding Obama’s June 23 firing of General Stanley McChrystal and his replacement by General…
The newspapers will be filled for days with information and views regarding Obama’s meeting with Stanley McChrystal and his Afghanistan team on Wednesday, June 23,…
Quotation “La guerre, c’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires.” “War is too serious a matter to just be handed over…
Heartening News, if Not an April Fool’s Joke Jonathan Partow of the Washington Post reports from Kabul that the lower house of Aghanistan’s National Assembly…
Thomas L. Friedman, in an op-ed article published on the New York Times website on March 30 and in the print edition on March 31,…
Robert Baer’s GQ article on the attack on the CIA base in Khost province and what it suggests about the capabilities of the CIA has…
Our intelligence in Afghanistan doesn’t seem to be very good. Publication of the Flynn report in January, 2010 revealed very serious shortcomings in U.S. military…
