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The U.S. could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than to topple him or cripple his military, senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday. -snip- But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., an influential voice on military matters, pressed the administration to go further, calling for the U.S. and its allies to provide weapons to "the resistance on the ground." "The important part of this whole situation is, is this just going to be just a retaliatory strike that has no lasting...

NEW DELHI, Dec. 22 -- In signs of growing regional tension since the Mumbai attacks last month, Pakistan scrambled fighter jets over several of its larger cities Monday, and India's foreign minister told a gathering of Indian diplomats in New Delhi that the country is keeping all its options open to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice. "We have so far acted with utmost restraint," Pranab Mukherjee told the more than 120 envoys from posts around the world, according to news reports. But he added, "We will take all measures necessary as we deem fit to deal with...

Obama’s socialist “New Deal” … Every corner of the anti-American, Socialist/Communist/Marxist, leftist/liberal faction within the country is bitching and moaning about Obama’s “apparent” lean to the center in his easing of his Iraq withdrawal-speak and his cabinet appointments. They are practically screaming “betrayal” from “The One” … Except his prime cheerleaders … You know them. Bill Ayers’s terrorist group. Former members of the once Weather Underground, who have “grown up” and moved on to head more “mature” anti-American/pro-Marxist groups in this country are calming the leftist masses and assuring them Barry hasn’t abandoned the Lenin dogma … he’s just sneaking...

Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college. * Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as "cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others." * Paul Carpenter Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a "a good bodysurfer", "an athletic guy", and "superbright". * Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York's Lehman College. * Jon K. Mitchell a friend...