In the forward  to Jay Riedel’s new book “Memories of a Fighter Pilot,” General Charles “Chuck” Horner, USAF (ret.) writes, “No fighter pilot is ordinary, but Jay’s story is extraordinary. “  Extraordinary?  With all due respect to the good general, I would say that Riedel’s story goes beyond extraordinary, by a large measure.  Consider [...]

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Ah yes. If you even tried to question the original spin of the Obama administration that the attack on the Benghazi mission was about an X rated porn film clumsily redubbed to seem as if was about the Prophet, you are an evil Republican trying to politicize national defense. That spin managed to silence Romney, [...]

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A lot of  the news about the Middle East is politicized in the US press, but today’s reports are not good. The Reuters news agency Religion section has this article, that cautions: The fabric of Middle Eastern society has fundamentally changed. Being Muslim has replaced being Arab as the primary identifying factor. The consequences are [...]

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In Syria, the war is getting nasty. One recent massacre of women and children is being touted as the reason for someone (NATO? Turkey? The UN?) to step in and stop the killing. And news reports of the government bombing civilian areas make many shudder. StrategyPage points out that a lot of the massacres are [...]

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“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.” When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being [...]

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As the world is playing catch with the events in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and other Arab Spring focal points, Iran is very busy. Trying to keep people oppressed in light of Arab Spring revolutions surely keeps the regime in Iran occupied. But more than that, viewing once strongman like Mubarak and Gadaffi defeated, jailed [...]

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Well, this year’s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally got some publicity today when Sarah Palin and family accompanied them as private citizens. As the mother of an Iraqi veteran, she is entitled to this. Most of the half million attending the rally seemed pleased. So of course most of the press coverage was about Andrea Mitchell [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders The reasons for American disagreement over President Barack Obama’s decision to go to war in Libya can be found in historical and fundamental differences over the proper role of the United States in world affairs. While it’s easy to see any argument over US foreign policy in the traditional terms of internationalists [...]

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While the US headlines were full of Charlie Sheen’s rants and news of labor union protests in Wisconsin,  here in the Philippines, the headlines are about our stranded OFW (overseas foreign workers) in Libya. Every paper has photos of those who escaped arriving at the Manila airport, and the Philippine Inquirer notes that the government [...]

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I can already smell the bong resin emanating from the radical marijuana legalization crowd that supports Ron Paul to the point of being cult-like, breathing down fire upon my comments section. You would have thought I punched the pope at Christmas mass after my last article on Ron Paul. I feel very strongly that Ron [...]

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A lot of nonsense being written about Afghanistan: Some see it as a hopeless war, but the dirty little secret is that Afghanistan is about protecting India and the Silk Road (the central Asian countries with their oil and gas resources) for India and China. But what to do about Afghanistan? It’s not true that [...]

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If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words:

“Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people.

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With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”. Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished. Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings,  or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu [...]

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There is a minor kerfuffle in the right wing blogs about Michael Bellesiles being caught publishing fiction as truth. The right wing has it in for Bellesiles, since he once faked data on gun ownership in early America, trying to prove no one owned guns then (and ergo the second amendment was meant to refer [...]

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I can see the outrage by animals lovers everywhere after they read the  AP headline: Baghdad kills 58,000 stray dogs in 3-month span It’s all about rabies. One reason that Islam says that dogs are “unclean” was because stray dogs carry rabies and other diseases. (These edicts did not go against hunting or watch dogs, [...]

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Reporters are busy reporting the story of the day, but often they miss the big picture, preferring to report stories as a race horse betting game. Example: Michael Steele said that Afghanistan is the President’s war. What will Rush say? Will that make Obama’s popularity poll go up or down? Time out, fellahs. Because a [...]

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General Mc Chrystal has committed a major breech in protocol when he openly criticized the President and the President’s plans for Afghanistan in an interview in the Rolling Stone. For the sake of our democracy, such behavior cannot be tolerated. He needs to be relieved from duty. Why do I say this? No, I am [...]

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Wiki Leaks has posted a full version and a shorter version of a military operation in Iraq. They call it  Collateral Murder. I am angry at these bleeding hearts who think that war is where everyone fights fair and plays fair. Wiki Leaks proclaims they have scientifically analyzed this video and declare that murder was [...]

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That was then: We are in a war because the Generals want to play with their toys and don’t give a damn how many people get hurt in the process.  We are in a war without direction, or discipline, led by a disengaged simpleton who will do whatever he is told by the unelected war [...]

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A small factoid on StrategyPage: the last decade has produced, for the first time, a large number of female combat veterans. There are nearly a quarter million of them, including over 5,000 receiving disability benefits (for injuries received in combat, or non-combat, operations). Until recently, the “official” story was that woman were not allowed to [...]

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Seeing Tony Blair yesterday at the Iraq war enquiry made me realise just how good a politician he was – surely the best communicator of modern times and intellectually robust as well. But, and it’s a massive but, his driving force was (and is) utterly wrong. It wasn’t socialism, or Europeanism, or Anglo-Americanism or any [...]

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Pacifism –noun 1. Opposition to war or violence of any kind. 2. Refusal to engage in military activity because of one’s principles or beliefs. 3. The principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war. In my post yesterday I mentioned that a so-called conservative friend on my facebook [...]

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In my daily attempt to shed light on the liberal’s statist agenda that seeks to convert our fine republic into a socialist doormat for the world, I come across a great many characters with quite a few interesting viewpoints. Throughout 2009, as President Obama and the liberal congress made it increasingly obvious that the oath [...]

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Today saw the first day of a public inquiry taking place in London into the events surrounding the British Government’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The hearing, conducted by retired civil servant Sir John Chilcot, aims to help answer key questions such as whether the government put pressure on legal experts, notably the then [...]

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The NYTimes has an article on “violence” at Fort Hood. At Army Base Some Violence is All To Familiar” the headlines cry. Yes, one more “Ain’t it awful” report on how violent veterans are, without mentioning that the “violent crime” rate is still lower than that of Chicago. The problems of violence on military bases [...]

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It is now a little over two years to the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and when that doleful event comes round can there be any doubt that we will have to say that the terrorists have won a victory beyond their wildest imaginings?  In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington [...]

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Michael Jackson was a pop star icon who earned the title, ‘King of Pop.’  He was a talented singer and dancer who broke down barriers for the African-American community.  Unfortunately, he was also a tortured soul who suffered through two marriages and divorces, along with medical and substance abuse problems.  His lifestyle and behavior often [...]

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An article on the left-leaning website Truthout announced yesterday that a “new direction in the war on terror” may result from a case that occurred in the last year of the Bush Administration. Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born suspected terrorist who was captured in Pakistan, was given “all the rights of  American criminal suspects.” The results? [...]

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Shortly after President Obama delivered his speech to the Muslim World in Egypt, the news was filled with reactions by individuals and by other countries. There are two reactions in particular that are worth a second thought: the thoughts of Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia and the reactions of Ayatollah Ali [...]

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I am happy that President Obama is trying to mend fences with Arabs and Iranians in the Middle East by giving a speech in Cairo. And many Americans agree, although many think he is being naive, or is sending a message to the radicals in the area that he is willing to “throw Israel under [...]

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