Tag Archives: Obama’s Foreign Policy

Time Out for Tampons! Women In Combat

December 3, 2015, a day that will live in infamy for the United States, Defense Secretary “Ash” Carter (ironic for that is certainly what he has made of the world’s once most powerful military) unilaterally and against expert advice to … Continue reading

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Refugee Children – America’s Hypocrisy

A majority of Americans are “cool” to the idea of allowing Central American “children” to flood across the U.S. border and take up residency.  The public premise of the demographically gerrymandering president is to rescue these “innocents” from the horrors … Continue reading

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Israel’s War with Hamas – Some Truth

Jacqueline O’Connor’s anti-Semitic vitriol would make any Nazi or KKK member proud.  But like most rabid bigots, her basic assumptions are patently false beginning with “Israel displacing Palestineans.”  James Michener (and others) debunked that myth many decades ago in his … Continue reading

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SGT. Tahmooressi Is Wrong

As a former Marine and a father of three Marines I will support a good Marine to the death.  But as a retired counterintelligence officer and immigration inspector with over 5,000 criminal interrogations I see a lot of holes in … Continue reading

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Transformation Under Fire: A Review (Where’s the Beef?)

Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights By Col. Douglas A. MacGregor, PFL (pre-fontal lobotomy) OR How to Kiss (Rumsfeld’s) Ass with Verbosity and Avoid Reality A former co-worker thought I would be interested in reading MacGregor’s book as the … Continue reading

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35F All-Source Intelligence Analysis Committee Is FUBAR!

The largest military intelligence occupational specialty (MOS) is FUBAR and has been for at least the five plus years I taught there. Sources continue to inform me it is only getting worse.  Ninety-five percent of the problems on this committee can … Continue reading

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Nat Hentoff: This is Snowden’s Treason

For some who are handicapped by an inability to fathom obvious logic –or an unwillingness to conduct real scholarship- it is necessary to spell out why some things are as they are.  In columnist Nat Hentoff’s  fifth-column frenzy to rehabilitate … Continue reading

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Snowden’s Useful Idiot – Hentoff

Dostoyevsky’s main character in The Idiot, “Myshkin,” appears so honest and sincere his fellow Russian characters believe him an idiot – and call him so in his presence.  So shall I regarding Nat Hentoff’s disinformation campaign to legitimize Snowden’s betrayal … Continue reading

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Political Purge?….or RIF?

The “sky is falling” reaction by the Right regarding an alleged Obama political purge of some 200 flag-ranked military officers just doesn’t hold water.  This manufactured crisis looks like a shotgunned water bucket.  It may be the first significant, flag-ranked … Continue reading

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Obama’s Syria Strategy

Regis Debray, French Socialist and mentor to deceased communist guerrilla Che’ Guevara, was asked about contradictions between Socialist goals and the oppressive results.  Debray replied “We don’t tell the people the truth.  We take dissembling to a fine art.”  When does dissembling … Continue reading

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Syria: Obama’s Bosnia

Before committing U.S. forces to the “humanitarian” relief of Syrian “rebels,” Obama, his National Security Council, Congress and interested citizens should read former U.S.  Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick’s book Making War to Keep Peace.  If intellectual, … Continue reading

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America’s King George, III

I was “pearl diving”  the sale rack at Hastings for cheap, good books a week ago and found another treasure: “Best Little Stories From the American Revolution” by C. Brian Kelly and Ingrid Smyer.  I’m always a little leery dealing with … Continue reading

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