May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Ticket: When it comes to the "secret kill list"—a regularly updated chart showing the world's most wanted terrorists—President Barack Obama is the "final moral calculation" in the kill or capture debate, according to the third in a series of New York Times articles assessing his record. And despite his liberal background, Obama ...
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May 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The New York Times: This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL: This is the heart-warming moment a soldier and his dog were reunited on U.S. soil after the man rescued it from torture in Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Nick B first met Bodhi, an Afghan herding dog, while on patrol in an Afghanistan village with his unit. The severely malnourished puppy was ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Angelia
KnottiesNiche Excerpted from the Examiner: On Sunday, the day before Memorial Day 2012, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said he was “uncomfortable” calling America’s fallen military “heroes.” “I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word [heroes] because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war,” he stammered. “Um,” he added, “and, I don’t want ...
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May 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
From Fox News: U.S. Marine Sgt. William Stacey was killed earlier this year by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, a tragedy for which he prepared by writing a letter to his family explaining why he was fighting that was to be read in the event of his death. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine ...
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May 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of a U.S. soldier who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan thanked the motorcycle riders of Rolling Thunder on Sunday for raising awareness of missing-in-action troops and prisoners of war. At the annual Rolling Thunder rally on the National Mall, Bob Bergdahl promised his son: “You will ...
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May 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE GUARDIAN: A brain drain of bright young women is already taking place in Afghanistan before the 2014 handover that many fear will mean a reversal of advances in women's rights. The lack of commitment by the Afghan government to equality and to tackling the high rates of ill-treatment of women in the ...
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May 22, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from MSNBC: — Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country’s security forces, Britain’s Sunday Times reported. In Ghazni province an hour from capital Kabul, Afghan army ...
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May 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from ABC NEWS: CHICAGO - Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-old war in Afghanistan, as the NATO alliance readies to hand over primary responsibility to Afghan security forces. "I'm bringing to you and to the people of the United States the ...
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May 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE HILL: the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requiring the United States only to use authorized funding for Afghanistan for the orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops from that country. Democrats said they support the amendment because Americans want to leave Afghanistan after years of fighting there, and because the language from Rep. ...
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