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, …
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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 …
Over
Twitter informs me that Obama is scheduled to announce a complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. What did we accomplish? What did we gain? Other than the removal of Saddam, nothing that I can tell, and I don’t understand how we are better off with Iraq in chaos and more closely aligned with Iran. Anyone …
With a Thompson Gun for Hire, Fighting to be Done
The Obama Administration is sending 100 armed troops to central Africa, starting in Uganda, to serve as advisors to help hunt down the Lord’s Resistance Army. This isn’t our first effort to stop the LRA: American efforts to combat the group also took place during the administration of President George W. Bush, which authorized the Pentagon to send …
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Iran so far away
I’m not quite as perturbed by news of the Iranian terror plot as Tim is. After the way the librul media undermined Dear Leader’s efforts in Iraq, the American public probably lacks the Churchillian resolve to bring freedom to the Iranian people. Don’t get me wrong, I dislike the Iranian mullahs, I’m convinced that they …