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Another Awful Afghan Autumn

October 22, 2014 – 8:03 pm

Another autumn has passed for coalition soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. The Taliban rise from the opium fields and the fighting season this its stride. Hardliners in the Pentagon are pressing President Obama to stay in place. He has said yes. I am seriously disappointed by his decision, because most couldn’t located Afghanistan on a map […]

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Rush To Judgement

June 11, 2014 – 2:19 pm

On the night of June 30, 2009 Private Bowe Bergdahl was captured by the anti-occupation Haqqani Gang. The circumstances of that evening vary from his video statement that he had fell behind his patrol, the Taliban claiming that he was drunk during an ambush, or that he walked off base heading for the mountains. The […]

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The Ugliness of Free Enterprise

May 21, 2013 – 11:01 pm

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been lauded for suggesting that the interest on student loans be lowered to subsidized America’s Future, however no one is proposing free education since this country prefers free enterprise. The entire yearly debt of college owns comes to $50 billion dollars. The same cost of running the wars in Afghanistan. So […]

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Who Won The Kentucky Derby

May 4, 2013 – 6:01 pm

This afternoon Orb won the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Orb paid $12.80 to win on a sloppy track of mud. Not a single sportscaster mentioned that today eight US soldiers had been killed in Afghanistan or that its President was still receiving millions of dollars each day from the CIA. […]

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Xenophon’s March

January 13, 2013 – 1:41 pm

After 9/11 then-President GW Bush’s security advisers targeted Afghanistan for revenge. The Northern Alliance was armed by CIA secret shipments to fight the Taliban and B-52s pounded al-Qaaspringda bases through the war-torn nation. NATO troops backed the new government with the USA providing the majority of combatants. An easy victory was never in the cards, […]

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