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Head Games

February 18, 2010 – 2:49 pm

My latest for the New Ledger has to do with Dick Cheney and his effect on the Obama Administration.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Democrats, Dick Cheney, foreign policy, Interrogation Policy, Joe Biden, National Security, Obama Administration, Republicans, Terrorism, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Joe Biden, torture, War on Terror, Waterboarding | Comments

I promise to be delighted whenever senior members of the Taliban and/or al Qaeda are captured or killed, and not to make the kind of derisive jokes about how “we always seem to be catching or killing the number 2 guy” that were made back when the Bush Administration captured or killed senior members of the Taliban and/or al Qaeda.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Abdul Ghani Baradar, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, National Security, Obama Administration, Taliban, War on Terror | Comments

Quote Of The Day

February 11, 2010 – 2:56 pm

“Now, the Obama-Biden pair that opposed the Iraq war and its tactics and predicted their failure is prepared to accept credit for its success.”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Don't Know Much About History, George W. Bush, Iraq, Joe Biden, Lying, National Security, Obama Administration, surge, Terrorism, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Joe Biden | Comments

Who Saw THIS Coming?

February 4, 2010 – 10:38 pm

Apparently, Andrew Sullivan had to be told to ease up on the Bush-is-a-crazy warmonger meme by . . . Mother Jones.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Andrew Sullivan, Bush Administration, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, George W. Bush, Georgia, Mother Jones, National Security | Comments

Remember When Democrats Were A PRO-Trade Party?

January 21, 2010 – 10:59 pm

Boy, those were the days.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Afghanistan, Cato Institute, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Drug Legalization, Economic Ignorance, economy, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, free trade, Iraq, National Security, protectionism, Same-Sex Marriage, Terrorism | Comments

Thank Heaven For Outsourcing

January 17, 2010 – 9:59 pm

Jonah Goldberg reads Thomas Friedman so that the rest of us don’t have to–though I suppose I ought to mention that I read Friedman before having read Goldberg.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Al Qaeda, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Jonah Goldberg, National Security, Terrorism, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Friedman Is The Worst Columnist Ever | Comments

Responding To The Underpants Bomber: The White House Fails The Test

January 8, 2010 – 2:02 am

The New York Times does a good job in detailing the White House’s overview of the details of an unclassified memorandum, discussing the various national security failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the opportunity to try to blow up Northwest Flight 253.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, National Security, Northwest Flight 253, Obama Administration, Terrorism | Comments

Epic Intelligence FAIL

January 2, 2010 – 4:05 pm

You know, between this, and the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father sought to warn the United States and other Western authorities about his son’s increasing radicalization, the fact that transportation safety authorities failed to thwart Abdulmutallab from boarding Northwest Flight 253 becomes increasingly shocking.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Erroll Southers, Janet Napolitano, Mark Kleiman, National Security, Northwest Flight 253, Obama Administration, Terrorism | Comments

And Speaking Of Janet Napolitano . . .

January 1, 2010 – 3:45 pm

President? Seriously?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, David Broder, Janet Napolitano, National Security, Northwest Flight 253, Obama Administration, Terrorism | Comments

David Brooks Has It Half Right

January 1, 2010 – 3:42 pm

Concerning the reaction to the Obama Administration’s initial “the system worked” claims in the wake of the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253, Brooks writes:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, David Brooks, Janet Napolitano, National Security, Northwest Flight 253, Obama Administration, Terrorism | Comments

The Difference Between Markos Moulitsas And Patriots

January 1, 2010 – 11:11 am

“I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic].”

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Afghanistan, Blackwater, Markos Moulitsas, National Security, Screw Them, Terrorism | Comments

“Systemic Failure”

December 30, 2009 – 8:19 am

There can be little doubt that the attempted bombing of Northwest flight 253 exposed a significant hole in our airline security procedures.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, National Security, Northwest Flight 253, Obama Administration, Terrorism | Comments

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