Must Reads!!

• NYT: Hard line on Iran places the White House in a bind
• Fierce fighting continues in Syria while opposition groups debate
• GsGf: Haqqani Network is a significant threat
• US may accept less-stringent controls for Taliban detainees
• Mideast upheaval knocks Saudi Arabia off-balance
• Wings Over Iraq: Daily Internat"l and Defense Briefings
• Wife: UBL had 4 children, 5 houses while on the run in Pakistan
• Paul Ryan accuses Generals of dishonesty on defense budget
• Intel assessment: CTBT verification problems remain
• Bork: US must retain human rights leverage on Russia

Can you imagine the kind of pressure a reelected 44 will put on Little Satan, the kind of anxiety he will induce from Georgia to the Persian Gulf, the nervousness among our most loyal East European friends who, having been left out on a limb by 44 once before, are now wondering what new flexibility 44 will show Putin — the man who famously proclaimed that the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century was Russia’s loss of its Soviet empire? – Washington Post

The message, the important one, concerns us, here in America. It is that the American people can't be trusted if the president is honest with them about what he proposes. More bluntly, that the American people are not trusted by their own president. Otherwise the president would tell us the truth about his intentions. And here he is, admitting his distrust of his own people to a leader of a nasty foreign government that seeks to thwart our purposes in the Middle East and elsewhere. President Obama is in cahoots with the Russian regime against America's very body politic. – Wall Street Journal