Ed Koch on the U.S., Iran and America's Far Left

Former New York City Democratic Mayor Ed Koch voices his concerns about how partsian politics in the United States may weaken President Bush and make the United States more vulnerable in the future. Straight talk that defies party politics from a New York legend long known for speaking his mind.

About Broken?
By Ed Koch on 2/20/07

Over the last few years I have written of my fears that we Americans, as a people, have lost our will to fight for our freedom.

We have come to expect that wars can be fought without casualties, even the relatively modest casualties we have suffered in Iraq. During World War II, more Americans were killed or wounded on Iwo Jima in one month than have fallen in Iraq in almost four years. Of course, every military death and severe injury is a tragedy. Nevertheless, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that our army in Iraq is “about broken,” which appalled and frightened me. Added to those two disturbing dangers to our national security is a new and third factor: denial of a military threat to our armed forces. Such a denial allows us to avoid addressing the threat with an appropriate military response.

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National Review on The New York Times' Al Qaeda is Back Banner Headline ...

Below you will find an interesting article that calls the New York Times out on the mat for its biased coverage on the war on terror. Last Sunday the Times led page one with a story painting a highly inaccurate picture on the current status of Al Qaeda. This site called them on it the minute we saw it. Today's article in the Review details how the New York Times is bending and distorting facts to push their own agenda.

Al Qaeda is Back? Let's go to the videotape.
By James S. Robbins

Periodically I give a seminar as part of a government course for counter terrorism analysts. The general topic for that segment is assessing the War on Terrorism, and I am billed as “The Optimist.” The organizers tell me they like to bring me in because I am provocative. That has always surprised me, because I never thought telling people they are doing a good job keeping the enemy at bay was particularly controversial. But you’d be surprised, as I am time and again, at the level of skepticism I run into. It is the same point of view reflected in the piece in Monday’s New York Times, based on intelligence-community sources, that says Al Qaeda is reconstituting. Their command and control is robust. They are running training camps. They are on the way back. Seems like five years into the war and we have nothing to show for it.

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