“The Founding Fathers never envisioned Executive Orders being used to restrict our Constitutional rights. We live in a republic, not a dictatorship.” – Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) IT’S REALLY amazing that the Obama administration walked right into the gun nuts’ most primal fear. “The president is going to act. There are executive orders, there’s executive [...]
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State Department Inquiry on Benghazi Finds “Grossly Inadequate” Security, No Video Protest
Finally, the report blamed two major State Department bureaus — Diplomatic Security and Near Eastern Affairs — for failing to coordinate and plan adequate security. The panel also determined that a number of officials had shown poor leadership, but they were not identified in the unclassified version of the report that was released. “Systemic failures [...]
Time’s Marketing Stunt and Who The Person of the Year Should Have Been
Of the 79 insider attacks from May 2007 to September 2012, military investigators found that 38 percent were likely to have been triggered by personal motives; 6 percent were suspected cases of enemy infiltration; and 14 percent were attributed to co-option, in which insurgents persuaded a member of the security forces to help carry out [...]
Turkey’s Parliament Authorizes Military Action in Syria
“This is the latest manifestation of a worsening situation,” said Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “This is not the only place it is spilling over. It is spilling over into Jordan, into Lebanon. They’re shelling on a daily basis. The difference today is it’s the first time we have a [...]
News Desk: Turkey Fires on Syria After Shelling Kills 5
FROM CNN INTERNATIONAL, NATO is convening an emergency meeting. Syrian shells landed inside Turkey killing civilians, and PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan released a statement confirming that Turkey has fired on Syrian targets in retaliation. From the BBC: Turkey says it has fired artillery against targets inside Syria after Syrian shells killed five people in a [...]
Taliban Loves the Smell of Fresh Gunpowder in Springtime
If it’s spring in Afghanistan, it’s time for a Taliban offensive. Pres. Karzai couldn’t wait to blame NATO. From the UK Telegraph: The Afghan president praised his own forces after they killed the final resisting members of insurgent suicide teams, but ordered an investigation into how the militants had been able to penetrate the city. [...]
Police State, Part III: It’s Really Happening, and the State Thanks Those Ignoring It
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. There’s absolutely nothing like a presidential election year to dominate media attention. And even when an unrelated story gets some time, if the presidential hopefuls can find a way, they’ll use it in their campaigns. For that reason, it’s a fairly safe bet that as [...]
If You Like Muddy, ‘Indeterminate’ War, Libya’s For You
“… In the meantime, the United States will participate in an open-ended, international intervention to stop Gadhafi, but the goal of that mission day to day and the time line on which it will be carried out are, frankly, unknown. For all the clamoring here at home for presidential communication to the nation on this, [...]
Rationalizing Libya
“It was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about. The engagement of the Arabs, the engagement of the Europeans, the general humanitarian question that was at stake”… Defense Secretary: Libya [...]
Sec. Clinton: NATO Takes No-Fly, U.S. in Broader Role
“We’ve also authorized military authorities for NATO to take on the broader military protection mission.” – Sec. Clinton Before Clinton spoke, the news coming through multiple news sources is NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance has reached an agreement to take over no-fly operations from the U.S., also known as “the coalition.” [...]
Well, That Worked Out Well
The original intent of the no-fly zone was to prevent carnage in Benghazi. It did. Now fears are growing that a humanitarian crisis is coming across Libya. Who could have predicted that? After all, war never causes these types of secondary issues– Oh, strike that. Pres. Obama and his administration say this isn’t a war. [...]
Holbrooke: Afghanistan ‘Much Tougher’ than Iraq
Several stories today focus on Afghanistan, with differing offerings all coming to the same conclusion. President Obama does not have grandiose dreams for the outcome in Afghanistan, where empires go to die, as the saying goes, with everyone understanding that security is plummeting in that country. With a new plan forward coming from all sides [...]
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