Oliver North from Creators Syndicate

Freedom From Religion for 02/10/2012

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — "We don't need you, so shut up!" That's the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America's Roman Catholics. And it's a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains — to the detriment of our armed forces.

During World War II, the War Department and the Department of the Navy urged — the operative word is "urged,&quo ...

Updated: Fri Feb 10, 2012

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Blacklist for 02/03/2012

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Co-written by Tom Kilgannon

blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.

The definition above, from an old Webster's dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee uneart ...

Updated: Fri Feb 03, 2012

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SOTU Surrender for 01/27/2012

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — It's an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the evening of Jan. 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just longer than one hour and six minutes. It was full of rhetoric we should expect to hear reiterated from now until Nov. 6. The president's sup ...

Updated: Fri Jan 27, 2012

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Red Lines for 01/20/2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — On Dec. 31, just hours before a New Year's Eve celebration, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Section 1245 of the law contains language providing authority to impose economic sanctions on Iran in order to deter the ayatollahs from acquiring nuclear weapons. White House efforts to have the sanctions provision stripped fr ...

Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2012

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Missing the Mark -- Again for 01/13/2012

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to "news reports" on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hordes of print and broadcast "correspondents" rushed to describe the ...

Updated: Fri Jan 13, 2012

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Strategic Capitulation for 01/06/2012

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military had better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That's the bottom line of the so-called "new strategic guidance" issued this week by President Barack Obama during a brief visit to the Pentagon. Flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Obama proudly proclaimed to allies and adversari ...

Updated: Fri Jan 06, 2012

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2012: A Tumultuous Year To Come for 12/30/2011

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

GEORGETOWN, S.C. — A year ago, this column questioned whether the 112th Congress — with its new speaker of the House, John Boehner — could "overcome the inane policies of its predecessors" and "mend Washington's free-spending ways." We all know how that turned out.

This week, as we prepare to ring out 2011 and welcome 2012, President Barack Obama ask ...

Updated: Fri Dec 30, 2011

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Christmas 2011 for 12/23/2011

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BLUEMONT, Va. — Four years ago, this annual Christmas column was written from Baquba, Iraq, while our Fox News "War Stories" team was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division and special operations units operating against the Iranian-supported Mahdi Army in the outskirts of Baghdad. A year earlier, the Christmas 2006 column was written in Ramadi, Iraq, while we were e ...

Updated: Fri Dec 23, 2011

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Iraq -- Victory or Defeat? for 12/16/2011

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

WASHINGTON — They are coming home. For the first time since March 19, 2003, there are no U.S. combat or combat support troops in Iraq. There is still a contingent of U.S. Marines guarding the biggest American embassy in the world and the largest military attache's office at any diplomatic mission. But there is no doubt in anyone's mind — ally or enemy — that the war in Iraq is ...

Updated: Fri Dec 16, 2011

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Remember Pearl Harbor? for 12/09/2011

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Seventy years ago this week, Japanese Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida led an airborne strike force of 49 "Kate" bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 51 "Val" dive bombers and 43 "Zeke" fighters on the first wave of an attack on Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. At 9:45 that terrible Sunday morning, a second wave of 167 attack ...

Updated: Fri Dec 09, 2011

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Incendiary Iran for 12/02/2011

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Our Fox News crew is here wrapping up our 100th "War Stories" documentary — with some of the "stars" of previous episodes. Though most of the Marines here are recent veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, their present focus is on the next trouble spots. Thanks to inept national security planning in Washington, there are mor ...

Updated: Fri Dec 02, 2011

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Thanksgiving 2011 for 11/25/2011

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Anyone who wonders what to be thankful for this holiday season need only visit a nearby military base. On the eve of Thanksgiving, our Fox News' "War Stories" team came to this sprawling Marine base south of our nation's capital to shoot interviews for an upcoming documentary. What we saw and heard inspired us all.

Nearly all the Marines ...

Updated: Fri Nov 25, 2011

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The Next War for 11/18/2011

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

JUPITER, Fla. — Not one of the old "frogmen" or young Navy SEALs who gathered this week at the nearby National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum for the annual Muster wants to see another war. Those who came here are veterans of combat spanning from World War II to the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to numerous other unnamed fights around the world. Within their ranks are men — a ...

Updated: Fri Nov 18, 2011

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The Heroes of 2011 for 11/11/2011

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CLOVIS, Calif. — This little town not far from Fresno may be the perfect place to observe Veterans Day as our nation closes a decade of war. A quiet San Joaquin Valley community in the heart of our most populous state, Clovis has lost 10 of its sons — eight of them from local Buchanan High School — in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Though the Defense Department apparently doesn' ...

Updated: Fri Nov 11, 2011

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Sideshow and Sabotage for 11/04/2011

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON — Our head of state is now in Cannes, France, at the G-20 summit, gallivanting with elites from the planet's most powerful economies. For the first time since his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama isn't the center of attention. The stars of this week's party on the French Riviera are German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy — architects ...

Updated: Fri Nov 04, 2011

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Republicans and Risks for 10/28/2011

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. Virgin Islands — We arrived at a tiny outpost on St. Thomas on Oct. 26. As we stepped ashore, the gentleman beside me said, "28 years ago at this very minute, I was lining up my 'thirsty' A-7 to land on the deck of the USS Independence (CV-62) not far from here. It was day two of Operation Urgent Fury. We were flying nonstop close air support missions for troops in contact on th ...

Updated: Fri Oct 28, 2011

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Aiding and Abetting a Real War for 10/21/2011

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PIERRE, S.D. — The good news about Moammar Gadhafi's demise arrived via my cellphone early Thursday morning. A friend from the Reagan administration, remembering the Libyan dictator's attempt to kill my family, called to let me know and added, "You must be very glad to see this day." But it doesn't seem to be a time for celebration.

Most of the Libyan people seem to be re ...

Updated: Fri Oct 21, 2011

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Protests, Justice and Fruit Flies for 10/14/2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON — Official Washington — meaning the Obama administration, fellow travelers in Congress and their allies in the so-called mainstream media — here's a quick peek at some recent events, the lead stories they generated and the response by the O-Team. Let me know if you think I'm wrong, but it looks to me as if they have the collective attention span of a fruit fly.

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Updated: Fri Oct 14, 2011

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A Decade at War for 10/07/2011

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON — Ten years ago this week, America went to war in Afghanistan. At 1 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 7, 2001, President George W. Bush told the world, "On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan." At the conclusion of his seven-minute broadcast from the W ...

Updated: Fri Oct 07, 2011

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Friends and Enemies for 09/30/2011

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON — When the U.S. State Department announced this week that it finally is going to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, it was a nonevent for most of our countrymen. That's because few Americans know how deadly the organization is. For that we can thank those at Foggy Bottom who are wedded to the naive hope of a near-term "diplomatic breakthroug ...

Updated: Fri Sep 30, 2011

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