Obama's surrender will end in blood

Matt Patterson , AT "They say that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was an odd venue for President Obama's Afghanistan speech. And indeed it was - after all, surrenders are usually offered to the enemy on the battlefield. For that is exactly what the President proposed Tuesday night; surrender, abject and total."

AfPak response to Obama's speech; fear

Rick Moran , AT "In Pakistan, Mr. Obama's declaration fed longstanding fears that America would abruptly withdraw, leaving Pakistan to fend for itself. Many in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, argued that the short timetable diminished any incentive for Pakistan to cut ties to Taliban militants who were its allies in the past, and whom Pakistan might want to use to shape a friendly government in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal. "The most serious issue, as far as we see it, is the exit date," said a senior Pakistani security official who spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to speak publicly. "It will have serious implications."

Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic

Der Spiegel "Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught."

OBAMA'S JOBS SUMMIT? IT'S A JOKE

Boortz Small business owners -- Not invited. U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Not invited. Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union -- Invited. National Federation of Independent Businesses - Not invited. United Steel Workers union president -- Invited Teacher's union president -- Invited Anna Burger, SEIU .. invited. Big Obama Donors. Invited. Opponents of Obama's stimulus spending. Not invited

Boxer ("Senator" Boxer to you.): Hackers should face criminal probe over 'Climategate'

The Hill h/t to Lucianne. "Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime."You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting." WHITE HOUSE HANGS ON TO THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX "Cap-and-tax gives Obama and the Democrat yet another way to hamstring the free marketplace and to produce revenue. This is a tax scheme, nothing else." Neal Boortz

Cadets await Obama's speech

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Cadet reads "Kill Bin Laden" as he waits with other cadets for U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver an address on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy.

In defense of Barack Obama

Jerusalem Post "Misguided, perhaps. But to declare the Obama administration to be anti-Semitic is just wrong. Let's keep the debate in the area of policy. Unfortunately, there'll be no shortage of topics to discuss."

It’s Getting Lonely Around Obama

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany h/t to Watching America "Nowhere outside America has the percentage of people concerned about a threatening environmental collapse sunk lower than it has in the United States, where it now stands at about one in five.To try to force new environmental laws through Congress under such conditions is, to put it mildly, courageous. It may even be political suicide."

The Left's Climategate: A Scandal for Journalism, Too

Media Research Center "The media’s current silence is made worse by the decades they spent promoting the Left’s alarmist global warming agenda and excluding any doubters from the discussion, as documented by numerous MRC studies:"

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Obama's Afghan Strategy

Blackfive "Afghan Security Forces (ASF) are not going to be ready in 18 months. Certainly we can train the grunts in that period of time to some level of competence. But it is the leadership that is key. You don't develop an NCO corps or an officer corps in that period of time. And it appeared the key to this strategy is standing up a competent ASF capable of defending itself and the country against the Taliban."

Rumsfeld takes issue with Obama's remark about Afghan troops

LA Times "There was a saying when I got there: If you're in Iraq and you need something, you ask for it," McKiernan said in an interview after being fired this year. "If you're in Afghanistan and you need it, you figure out how to do without it."