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Hindsight and all that
One of the modern favorite past times of a whole lot of people who know nothing more about war than what they see on TV or read on the internet is to believe the so-called definitive accounts of so-called journalists … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Current Operations, History, Iraq, Military, Nations, Osama bin Laden, People, Politics, United States, Updates, World Watch, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged 9-11, Action, Blame, claims, Consequences, experience, hacks, History, Iraq, Military, politicians, success
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In case you forgot
In case you forgot why we are in Afghanistan and why we must never forget: New York’s ship comes in. The USS New York, LPD-21. DLH
Posted in History, Military, News, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged 9-11, New York, perserverence, reasons, remembering
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9-11
Eight years ago today, I was sitting at my desk at the 269th Combat Communications Squadron, Springfield Air National Guard Base, Ohio when a breaking news alert email informed me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, Nations, News, Patriot Day, United States, War on Terror, World Watch, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged 9-11, remembering
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What did they know and how long did it take them to tell it?
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So, the CIA had this program that came into existance soon after 9-11 to kill leaders of al-Qaeda and they didn’t tell Congress about it. This failure to inform Congress may or may not have been a violation of the law.
Now, this decision not to tell was apparently made by former-Secretary-of-Defense-then-Vice-President Dick Cheney. Why? Apparently because there was a concern that if Congress was told about the on-again-off-again-program-that-never-became-operational, it would leak. […] Continue reading
Posted in al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Government, Groups, Intelligence, Nations, News, Politics, Security, United States, World Watch, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged 9-11, CIA, information, Intelligence, National Security
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Now I am sure we have forgotten
When Pat Buchanan dares to write a column on RealClearPolitics suggesting that abandoning Afghanistan might be part of the solution for winning the broader war brought to our shores on 9-11, then I am sure that our nation has forgotten the lessons we should have learned in permanence on that terrible day. […] Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nations, News, Society, United States, World Watch, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged 9-11, Afghanistan, Consequences, Quitting
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