The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
1. Ricks fails to understand that military strategy and policy do not exist in a vacuum. The White House and Congress both have votes that can be decisive. Shinseki and Franks were closer to right w/r/t force requirements for Iraq than was Rumsfeld. Further, Jerry Bremer unbelievably complicated Iraq by de-Baathification and dissolutionn of the …
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It is easy to look at the shutdown and the concomitant chaos in federal government as the product of incompetence and corruption. But it was a deliberate effort by a vocal congressional minority from safe, cynically gerrymandered, congressional districts to sabotage the functioning of the entire federal government. One would think that a deliberate effort …
Hard National Security Choices Dispatch from Berlin on a Diplomatic Disaster By Ingrid Wuerth Friday, October 25, 2013 at 7:00 AM A diplomatic disaster for the United States is currently unfolding in Berlin. The revelation that the NSA may have monitored cell phone conversations and text messages of Chancellor Angela Merkel has led to popular …
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Does power make you mean? By Susanne Gargiulo CNN October 24, 2013 “Thinking Business” focuses on the psychology of getting ahead in the workplace by exploring techniques to boost employee performance, increase creativity and productivity. (CNN) — We all know the story. Someone gets promoted at work and suddenly they change — they start forgetting …
How the Sunni-Shia schism is dividing the world The unprecedented Saudi refusal to take up its Security Council seat is not just about Syria but a response to the Iranian threat The Muslim world’s historic – and deeply tragic – chasm between Sunni and Shia Islam is having worldwide repercussions. Syria’s civil war, America’s craven …
This is NOT speculation. Everything told here is documented and supported by a Tosh Plumlee’s testimony and supported by letters from Senator Gary Hart to the “Kerry Commission”. I have copies of the letters. David Phi Beta Iota: This series by Dr. David Sabow is posted in honor of his brother Col James Sabow, USMC …
How many lies can the White House tell before the walls collapse? Obama has no one to blame but himself: He was the one who campaigned, in 2008, on Hope and Change. He was the one who deployed high-flying rhetoric to promise a new day in Washington politics. He was the one who said he …
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