Pre-Colombian maps of “the world” sported this phrase just westward of the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) because no one had sailed out there, and ignorance always breeds fear and myth. Just look at how a neighborhood organizer views the greater world – fear: “I’ll...
Associated Press reported today that SecDef Robert Gates sent a three-page memo to National Security Advisor General James Jones [USMC] noting that the United States has no “nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program”, meaning that with the obvious failure of diplomacy, there is no...
Much has been made of our glimpse into the administration’s nuclear philosophy, afforded by this week’s leak of the new Nuclear Posture Review and the signing of a new START with Russia. Most analyses I have seen tie the content to President Obama’s avowed aspiration for a nuclear-free world. It is never...
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Since New Year’s Eve, the anti-gang unit of the Helmet [CA] [1] Police Department has been under attack. It seems the Vagos, California’s largest outlaw motorcycle gang, took umbrage at the attentiveness with which HPD views their activities. The Vagos fund their operations via methamphetamine trafficking...
Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern Iraqi oil well). Now, let’s look at the...
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I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran claims was never returned after the Iran-Iraq War...
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The FBI said today that they are announcing the addition of two individuals to our Most Wanted Terrorists list, along with substantial rewards for information leading to their capture. Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is sought for his role in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, in which 17...
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Just to set the record straight, President Obama, not Attorney General Holder, has decided to move the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials [1] to New York’s Southern District. When he moved responsibility for the trials from DoD to DoJ and issued an executive order to stop all military tribunals (including...
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Recevied this from a friend of mine, it was too good not to post.
President Obama’s Afghan options may be complex, but the choice is simple – prevent Afghanistan and [perhaps] Pakistan from becoming sanctuaries for international terrorism, or lose the war. Those are the stakes. Mr Obama sent his general into the “good war” with his strategy, and General McCrystal has...