John Bolton on China’s cyber warfare on America. China has a constant effort to penetrate all types of computer information in the US.
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Interview with Jed Babbin on America at War and the State of the Union
Jed Babbin is warning that the Obama administration is doing damage to the military, and may not be up to the many national security challenges that the United States currently faces.
National Security Shouldn’t Be For Sale
In what the Post describes as a “high-octane lobbying” campaign, Gates has already offered Kyl an extra $4 billion in spending on nuclear programs in exchange for his vote. This is on top of the existing $10 billion Administration pledge. This deal is bad policy and deplorable politics.
A Gangster With Oil
Years ago, Americans worried about Venezuela’s leftist Hugo Chavez becoming a new Castro — with oil. It happened. Now he’s filling his cabinet with drug lords, and the threat morphs into something creepier.
UK Government to compensate ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees
Around a dozen men who accused British security forces of colluding in their torture overseas are to get millions in compensation from the UK government.
President Obama “Strikes Out” in Trip Around the World
This coming immediately after the elections in which the Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives and its majority in the Senate was reduced considerably, painted a vivid portrait of an administration in trouble.
Obama needs to ‘wake up’ on world threats
“This administration does not seem to understand the intent of jihadist ideology,” Franks said, adding that it “could be fatal to a great many people and to world stability itself if Mr. Obama does not wake up.”
Obama’s Asia Trip Not Seen As a Success
Critics have characterized the trip as disappointing – if not a downright failure.
American Embarrassment in Seoul
Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. ~ WSJ
Netanyahu: A nuclear Iran is greatest danger to world
“The greatest danger facing the world is the prospect of a nuclear Iran,” he said. “It sponsors terror in Lebanon and Gaza, confronts the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, establishes beachheads in Saudi Arabia. Its influence has spread even to this hemisphere in South America. It has done all this without nuclear weapons. Imagine what it will do with them.”