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… 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…
…ent disrespects their existence. So do we really hold “torture” in contempt or do we redefine the word to suit our agenda? It is all in the definition, interpretation and intent. Do not let the opposition, or anyone, define terrorism or torture for us. An informed opinion is an individual’s purview. You must decide or retreat, embrace accountability and responsibility? Uncomfortable? On 11/13/2011 CNN’s Dan Lothian asked President Obama to r…
…e political costs of backing down from a deterred threat. These factors make the deterrence of terrorist groups problematic. 2” The Council on Foreign Relations issued a report titled, “Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism.” In that report they state: “Analysts have long argued that the central pillar of Cold War strategy—deterring nuclear war by threat of overwhelming punishment—is largely irrelevant in efforts to prevent the use o…
…rity Council staff member Pradeep Ramamurthy agrees with the strategy to remove radical Muslim references from our national security strategy document. He said “Do you want to think about the US as a nation that fights terrorism or a nation you want to do business with?” Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist and former Bush adviser disagrees: “It doesn’t appear to have created much in the way of strategic …
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
… 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 …
…now called “overseas contingency operations”. I wonder who thought that one up. “Islamic Extremist” is now a “Violent Extremist”. Guess we wouldn’t want to upset the Islamic Extremists would we. Individual acts of terrorism will now be referred to as “Man-caused disasters”. Like a forest fire or an oil spill. Gotcha. But this goes way past the White House and has entrenched itself deep in the fabric of our society. With the utmost res…
…2002, was the subject of several federal investigations dating back to the late 1990s. Even with this information the federal authorities dropped the inquiry into Hasan’s communications when a member of one of its Joint Terrorism Task Forces determined “that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center [in Washington]….
…gest allies. And, he is making the possibility of peace a further impossibility. You may disagree with President Bush’s foreign policy, but you cannot disagree with its results. After 9/11, there was not one additional act of terrorism on US soil or against US assets abroad. Strength comes with fear. The Muslim dictators know this. It is the way of the Arab world. Do you think the Saudi leaders would be parading around the body of an executed be-…
…. Will he bring them back to the United States and have them tried in the American judicial system, or will he let potential terrorists go free, maybe back to their own countries where they can get back into the profession of terrorism. Many bad things happened at Guantanamo, but closing it is not the answer. Maybe just stopping the controversial interrogation techniques that went on there? I for one do not want terrorists, alleged or otherwise, …
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