April 28, 2009
President Obama has made it very clear that he intends to pursue the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. In fact, he is basically following the Bush era policy in that regard and is effectively, recreating the Bush surge that turned the tide in Iraq. However, the members of the Taliban do not seem to care and do not seem to be alarmed by this. Why? It is very simple. The Taliban has decided that Afghanistan is just a pawn in their little gam…
Tags: Pakistan
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October 9, 2009
“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…
Tags: Al-Qaed, Hamid Karzai, Korean War, Somali, Taliban, Vietnam
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May 27, 2009
…g, but foreign leaders that have it in for the United States are beginning to flex their muscle. Both Iran and North Korea are snubbing their noses at President Obama right now and he is doing nothing about it. Meanwhile, the Taliban continues its march towards Islamabad and its nuclear weapons with nothing from the Obama Administration other than threats to Pakistan that if they don’t do something quick, we will. As each day passes, I’m just won…
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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July 23, 2009
…hing happens. Then, in a video that was not played at all by the liberal media in the United States, none of the Russian government officials shake his hands. In fact, they snub him. Pakistan came very close to falling to the Taliban and is still fighting them off. That was not a typo, Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We have increased our presence in Afghanistan, but we still can not make any inroads. In fact, the past few months in Afghanistan have b…
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Economy, socialism
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September 14, 2009
…ary to do it themselves. In Iraq because of the surge, this is quickly happening. In Afghanistan, it is a different story. The Afghanistan situation is beginning to look like Vietnam. Either we make the commitment to beat the Taliban or we will be involved in a war of attrition which cannot be 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…
Tags: Ideology, Obama
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June 4, 2009
…elations 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 Obama’s hands. The War on Terror is not…
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May 12, 2009
The week has been a little slow politically. The unemployment numbers for April came out and depending on your frame of reference were either great or not that bad. In my opinion, five hundred thousand jobs lost in one month is not good. But, I am in the minority on this according to polling in the last few days. On other fronts, Pakistan has started a major offensive against the Taliban. There is still no real word on whether it has been succes…
Tags: Free Speech, Pakistan, Politically Correct
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March 30, 2009
…n” behind all of this. However, so that it does not appear that all I do is bash the President, I must state that on foreign affairs, I have to give him a little more credit. He is planning on taking a real hard line with the Taliban. The latest news report shows that the President is planning on increasing troops in Afghanistan and has also told the Pakistani government that they must be actively involved in defeating the Taliban. Also, as of th…
Tags: Auto Industry
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
Tags: " "Dancing with the Stars, Chaz Bono, Fini Goodman, JR Martinez
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