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Trust Betrayed

by Scott Taylor

Regnery Publishing
Hardcover  •  2015  •  $27.99
ISBN: 978-1-62157-327-2

Loose Lips Sink Ships

Every American knows the old World War II saying—but ex-Navy SEAL sniper Scott Taylor believes today’s leaders have forgotten it. After serving his country for eight years and watching brave comrades die, Taylor came home to a White House that leaks sensitive intelligence information whenever politically expedient. Now, on behalf of all the men and women in uniform whose lives are in jeopardy, Taylor is speaking out.

Ex-Navy SEAL sniper Scott Taylor served his country for eight years. Taylor finally came home after he was injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Years later, he became outraged when he discovered that the Obama administration was leaking sensitive intelligence information for political gain. Now Scott Taylor is speaking out. Having served as a sniper in the same region of Iraq as American Sniper author Chris Kyle, Taylor knows first-hand how high the stakes are. From the bungling of Benghazi to the rise of ISIS, the White House has betrayed the trust of American forces. It’s time President Obama and his administration were finally held accountable

 

 

 

 

Profiles in Conservative Courage

Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is “as old as the Republic itself.” But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement?

Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought—some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting tour from the American Founding to the modern era, Tucker traces the development of conservatism’s basic tenets and shows how leaders put principle into action (some more successfully than others).

Conservative Heroes offers brief but penetrating profiles of:

• The Founders who agreed on the two primary purposes of government—but differed on how best to achieve the balance between them
• The pair of nineteenth-century congressional leaders who fought to preserve the founding vision of a limited national government
• The towering statesman whose defense of slavery has obscured his considerable contributions to American constitutional history
• The last Democratic president to advance conservative principles
• The president and treasury secretary who together reduced taxes and the size of the federal government—and sparked an economic boom
• The forgotten leaders, both Democrats, who spearheaded the conservative challenge to FDR’s New Deal (more…)

“Family breakdown is the shadow behind all sorts of other problems that people are much more easily conversant about,” explains the Manhattan Institute’s Kay Hymowitz. Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution tells Pearlstein that “on a scale of one to ten, [it’s] probably a fifteen; it’s the biggest problem we have.” Because, as Heather Mac Donald, also of the Manhattan Institute, puts it, “The family unit is the absolute basis of society. It is responsible for civilizing human beings and creating adults who are capable of engaging in the economy. With families breaking down at the rates they are, our chance of being able to take care of other large economic problems recedes.”

You can tell a lot about a society by its taboos. Several weeks ago, America reeled when Adrian Peterson—the great NFL running back of his generation—was indicted on charges of “reckless or negligent injury to a child.” Peterson is alleged to have disciplined his son by “whooping” him—these are Peterson’s words, not mine—with a “switch.” The child, a 4-year-old boy, suffered cuts on his backside and thighs. For this act, which 50 years ago was commonplace, Peterson was arrested, suspended by his employer (the Minnesota Vikings), and publicly castigated by all and sundry.

Unremarked upon was the fact that the 29-year-old Peterson does not live with this boy and reportedly has seven children—that we currently know about—with five different women. Which illustrates nicely the changing mores in America: Corporal punishment is a scandal, or even a crime, but there is no judgment about men who father children out of wedlock and then abandon the vulnerable mothers and children. Yet only one of these pathologies poses an existential threat to our society. This problem, which scientists refer to as “family fragmentation,” is the subject of Mitch Pearlstein’s new book. (more…)

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 How the World Turned Against Israel 

by Joshua Muravchik     

Turning Against Israel

The downward trajectory of global prestige

Ronald Radosh

Ronald Radosh is the coauthor, with Allis Radosh, of A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. 

’13 Hours’: New Book Says CIA Official In Benghazi

Stalled Rescue Of Ambassador Chris Stevens

A protester reacts as the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States on Sept. 11, 2012. Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori

The CIA station chief in Benghazi held up the rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens and an American technician during an attack on the diplomats there, according to the New York Times, which, along with other media outlets, obtained a copy of a book detailing the event.

The new book, which is due out next week, is titled “13 Hours” and was written by Mitchell Zuckoff, a professor of journalism at Boston University. Zuckoff wrote the book with the input of five commandos who were former members of American Special Forces teams hired by the intelligence agency as private contractors. There are three commandos credited by name — Mark Geist, Kris Paronto and John Tiegen — and two of the commando-authors used pseudonyms.

The book says the station chief issued a “stand down,” hoping that Libyan militiamen would carry out the rescue so as not to expose the CIA base.

According to the Times, a diplomatic security agent said to the commandos: “If you guys do not get here, we are going to die!” The commandos left the base on their own despite the chief’s stand-down order. Two of their team died that night, the men say. Ambassador Stevens and the technician both died in the attack.

The book is the first detailed account of the Benghazi attack from security personnel. The incident was the subject of controversy during the last presidential campaign — Mitt Romney argued that President Obama had been slow to identify it as an act of terror — and it is certain to dog Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, if she decides to run for president in 2016.   (more…)