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… interpretation and intent. Seal Team 6 “In the early morning of 2 May 2011 local time, a team of 40 CIA-led Navy Seals from DEVGRU, 24 on the ground, successfully completed an operation to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan about 35 miles (56 km) from Islamabad, the country’s capital.” “The Navy Seals were part of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, previously called “Team 6″. President Barack Obama later c…
…elieve that by allowing Israeli/US relations to go by the way side, he is going to make Al Qaeda disappear? I think not. In fact, yesterday another tape of Osama Bin Laden appeared condemning the United States for backing the Pakistani military in taking on the Taliban. The tape made it clear that President Obama was no different from President Bush in Bin Laden’s eyes and that the blood of Muslims and retribution for their deaths would be on Oba…
…ould increase as well. But, no! President Obama has decided to disarm at a time when we are in the midst of two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan; when North Korea and Iran are threatening to join the list of nuclear countries; when Pakistan could fall any day to Islamic extremism; and, at a time when any local squirmish could turn into an international incident (Thailand and elsewhere). Don’t you think that common sense would dictate that military spen…
…won. President Obama must take the steps necessary to accomplish the goal. Anything short of that will give the Taliban and Al Qaeda the foothold they need to take over the Afghanistan government again and to possibly move on Pakistan to get control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. This is unacceptable. The second response “The Rich” is also idealistic. How much more taxation do you think the rich are going to take before they completely revolt? Th…
“Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.” Wendell Mayes It’s been eight years since our troops first set foot upon Afghani soil. It’s been eight years of fighting and dying. After eight years exactly where do we stand? Let’s take a quick look at the score card. In 2001 our army managed to literally chase Al-Qaeda out of the country and into the hills of Pakistan and drive the Taliban fro…
… spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system; 3. Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years; 4. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims; and, 5. Afghan human rights act…
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