MEMBER BLOG TAG: national security
| Friday, May 20, 2011 1:01PM | | | | Reality & hunt for Osama | Tags: George W. Bush, pundits, non-fact-based reality, Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips, Dan Balz, Washington Post, CIA, Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Andy Card, Fox News, vigilance, Gen. Richard Myers, FAIR, USA Today, Pentagon, BIn Laden Unit, Michael F. Scheuer, New York Times, Counterterrorism Center, Government Accountability Office, McClatchy, John Yoo, Karl Rove, American Enterprise Institute, National Security Council, Tommy Vietor, Glenn L. Carle, KSM, National Security Archive, perception management, news media
| | | | It’s touching how diligently pundits and politicians of the non-fact-based reality persuasion try to rewrite the record of George W. Bush. For example: Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips “said that the death of Osama bin Laden happened in spite of President Obama.” (Right Wing Watch 5/2/11) “Bush’s persistence was palpable and set the tone for the intelligence community tasked with bringing bin Laden to justice. (Dan Balz, Washington Post 5/2/11)
To make such statements one must ignore the opportunity before 9/11. “The Bush administration now had in its hands what one participant called ‘the holy grail’ of a three-year quest by the U.S. government – a tool that could kill bin Laden within minutes of finding him. The CIA planned and practiced the operation. But... | | | | | | | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:53PM | | | | Second Amendment & the Dick Act | Tags: Dick Act, Second Amendment, militia, keep and bear arms, national security, Lincoln
| | | | The Militia Act of 1792 mandated that “each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States...who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years” be a member of the militia. Section XI dealt with select paramilitary or unregulated militia, “That such corps retain their accustomed privileges subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by this Act, in like manner with the other militias.”
In 1842 Joseph Story, Supreme Court justice and author of Commentaries on the Constitution noticed a problem that existed from the beginning, the unwillingness of some of the militia to be regulated. “And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem... | | | | | | | Wednesday, August 5, 2009 12:40PM | | | | Drugs: Nancy Said No, Ronnie Said Y | Tags: narcotics, contras, Reagan, terrorism, CIA, National Security Council, Oliver North, Saddam Hussein, Battalion 316,
| | | | When Ronald Reagan died, his complicit enablers in the media lauded him for his myth-making “city on a hill,” ignoring the condemnation of the International Court of Justice that America had hidden its light under a bushel of terrorism. David Podvin commented, “On air and in print, the truth about the fortieth president was distorted beyond recognition by commentators determined to transform a bad leader (and even worse human being) into a hallowed icon.”
Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker wrote that Reagan “undermined environmental, civil-rights, and labor protections, neglected the AIDS epidemic, and packed the courts with reactionary mediocrities. He made callousness respectable.” Others pointed out that wealth was concentrated in the richest few, Reagan gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegal immigrants to... | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:33PM | | | | Resurrecting Reagan | Tags: Reagan, Bush, terrorism, crime, racism, hunger, national security
| | | | Poster boy of those who preach “family values” is Ronald Reagan who abandoned his family to marry a pregnant mistress.
“Pro-selected life” citizens revere Reagan although as governor of California, Reagan signed the nation’s most liberal abortion law. As president he appointed three justices, only one of whom foreswore his oath of office in order to defend church dogma.
Fiscal conservatives extoll Reagan who promised to cut taxes and live on borrowed money. Let someone else pay. He increased the national debt more than anyone until George W. Bush.
Social Darwinists applaud Reagan for making government the problem for the poor and the solution for the greedy.
Veterans of the class war adore Reagan for union-busting, trying to cut federal funding for school lunches for poor children, and... | | | | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:38PM | | | | Ezra and Nehemiah | Tags: national security, religious exclusivity, ethnic purity, Judah
| | | | The ancient Hebrew nation of kings David and Solomon became divided into Israel, the northern kingdom, and Judah the southern kingdom. Israel was conquered by Assyria, thousands of Israelites were deported to other lands and were replaced by settlers from Syria and Babylon. Those are the ten lost tribes of Israel.
Judah submitted to Assyrian rule but strengthened national defense and repaired the wall of Jerusalem. Then Assyria was conquered by Nebuchadneezer’s Chaldean army. The prophet, and patriot, Jeremiah implored Judah to make peace with Babylon and was declared a traitor by false prophets who preached that Jerusalem could never be taken because of its wall and temple. Jeremiah was thrown into a cistern to die but was rescued by a slave. After a three month... | | | | | |
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