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Nobody “Won” in Mosul
Recently, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi flew into the tragically besieged city of Mosul and declared “victory” over ISIS. Does anybody ever “win” an earthquake? How do you win an orphanage fire? Who wins when the senior center collapses? Here’s a very simple observation: nobody ever “wins” a war of destruction, a war conducted with…
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EVERY Air Strike Is a War Crime
Recent revelations that “Thousands of US airstrikes have been unaccounted for in Syria, Iraq & Afghanistan“— revelations based on the public documents of the US military itself— show the ugly face of a much deeper, much more egregious, even criminal problem. Here was part of the report, based on The Military Times: US Central Command has…
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Does Trump Have a Plan? Why Is He Surrounding Himself with So Many Generals?
This, from Politico: Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer who spent hours interviewing him in 2014, worried that the president-elect could be “vulnerable” to the suggestions of the top brass. “I think Donald has been fascinated by military men since he was 13 years old and sent away to this [military] academy,” D’Antonio said of the…
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Women Are Not Fit for Combat
Obviously, women are not suited for Combat. Contrary to what Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter naively proposes, all unbiased, non-military research, along with multi-generations of direct experience conclusively demonstrate that although women may be physically able to perform all the combat roles asked of them, they are at root neither emotionally nor mentally suited for…
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Pakistani Judge Orders Charges Against CIA Lawyer, Officer For Drone Strike
The Pakistani Courts seem to be more willing to abide by the rule of law, at least in the most serious cases, than our U.S. judicial system. Earlier this month, a Pakistani judge ordered that criminal charges be filed first against a former CIA lawyer who oversaw its drone program and he also ordered that…