Bear in mind that this is from a Politico article, and they offer nothing to quantify their assertion, but I found this idea interesting: The anti-war stance, the sharp criticism of the war on terrorism, the calls to rein in military spending — all of it is fueling Paul’s support among the young voters who …
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We’ll Regret This One Day
I know this will mainly fall on deaf ears, but this is not a good development and not something we should be proud of: The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, …
Iraq: An Ending, of Sorts
(Jeff Danziger’s website) “We” should never have gone there in the first place, “we” had no business doing what we did or hanging around as long as we did, but President Obama deserves credit for checking off another item on his campaign-promises list. From Andre Tartar at NYMag‘s Daily Intel: The last U.S. military convoy …
Oh, BTW- Mission Accomplished
An e-mailer ripped into me for not highlighting this: President Obama observed the end of the war in Iraq on Wednesday before an audience of those who fought in it, telling a crowd of returning war veterans that the nearly nine years of conflict in Iraq, a war now indelibly imprinted on the national psyche, …
Dead Civilians are the Cost of Doing Business
Sadly, the only people who will be punished for this are the ones who forgot to destroy the documents: One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of …
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When They Do It, It is Called Warmongering
When we do it, we call it national security: The recent crash of a U.S. spy drone inside Iran offers a glimpse at the growing secret effort by Washington to curb the nuclear program of its longtime foe, the Associated Press reports. Iran last week released video footage of what it says is an intact …
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Kubrick Was There First
Regarding DougJ’s amazing (and horrifying AEI quote), I’d just like to point out that Kubrick got there first. AEI: The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they …