Author: MYLIFE

From today’s Financial Times, a dose of reality concerning Tuesday’s North Korean missile test. As the the paper reminds us, Pyongyang has a long way to go in mastering ICBM…

Kim Jong-il must be chuckling right about now. Almost a week after his provocative missile tests, there is still no regional consensus on what should be done about North Korea,…

Deeply concerned over last week’s North Korean missile tests, the Japanese government is reportedly studying its own constitution, to determine if a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang’s missile sites would violate…

Former Army Private Steven D. Green has entered a not guilty plea to charges of rape and murder in connection with the deaths of a young Iraqi girl and members…

Retired Navy Vice-Admiral Jack Shanahan is out with an op-ed (in the Austin American-Statesman) , calling for termination of the Air Force’s F-22 fighter program. Shanahan, who once commanded the…

According to the AP, U.S. security teams have arrived at our Embassy in Beirut, the first step in a massive non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) of 25,000 Americans and dependents from…

It remains the $64,000 question in the current Middle East conflict? What is Iran up to, and why did it “suddenly” send its proxies from Hamas and Hizballah into war…

Today’s edition of The New York Times contains a somewhat predictable article, with U.S. and Israeli officials expressing “surprise” at the sophistication and power of Hizballah’s rocket and missile arsenal,…

..to begin in earnest, with preparations for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon clearly underway. AP reports that Israeli troops and armor are massing along the northern border, in preparation for…

The first waves of western “evacuees” from Lebanon have begun arriving in the United States and Europe, raising serious–and legitimate–questions about how many Hizballah operatives might be in their midst.…