Tag: War on Terror

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A letter by Osama bin Laden addressed to the people of the United States was posted in Arabic in 2002 to a Saudi Arabian website that was then being used by bin Laden’s organization, Al Qaeda, to distribute its messages. In November of that year it was translated by Islamists in the United Kingdom and then posted to various English-language websites in that country, and was also sent out to e-mail lists run by opponents of the Saudi regime who were living in Britain, according to The Observer at the time. On November 24 the full text was published at the Guardian as well. (more…)

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I Don’t Have a ZOG in This Fight

I’m already war-weary, and it’s only been a week. I was burned-out on all things Middle Eastern a long time before this latest round of tedium arrived uninvited at my doorstep. I invariably zone out of any discussion about the Middle East, and now it’s going to suck up the news cycle and clog my cerebral arteries for the unforeseen future. (more…)

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George Friedman
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
New York: Anchor Books, 2009

George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years is an intriguing forecast of how the twenty-first century will play out. Friedman gets a lot of things wrong, but there is nevertheless a method to his analysis, and we have much to learn from what the broader center-Left, of which Friedman is a part, gets right. It’s also interesting because glowing reviews in the mainstream media suggests that the book has been guiding the establishment’s thinking, and thus explains some of their odd decisions. (more…)

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

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As I write this, the final results of the 2022 midterm election remain in doubt, but it appears that the Republicans will win a bare majority in the House and gain half the Senate. Georgia’s Senate race will be determined in a runoff. Regardless of whoever wins there, Georgia will not produce a very good Senator. (more…)

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I observed a fascinating dichotomy on an afternoon flight out of El Paso International Airport. A sizeable group of Afghan refugees, having just completed a stay on a nearby military base, filled the terminal; they were en route to their final destinations in name-your-city, USA. (more…)

Rylee McCollum

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On September 10, 2021, my wanderings carried me to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where I had the privilege of witnessing the homecoming of Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, one of thirteen American Marines killed during the evacuation of Kabul. Rylee was 20 years old, a husband, and an expectant father. (more…)

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Invade the world while inviting the world, and it may all come crashing down on you.

The 9/11 attacks are the most deadly terrorist attacks of the twenty-first century (so far). The planners combined a wily, perverse use of airplanes, mentally ill Sunni religious fanatics, and iconic skyscrapers to kill nearly 3,000 people, most of them white. (more…)

In the Department of Defense, sub-Saharans are over-promoted everywhere.

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Before you read this article, you need to drop everything and contact your elected official encouraging him or her to not allow any Afghan refugees into your country. While Afghans are white Indo-Europeans, their culture has some drawbacks. Those “translators” we are supposedly obligated to help were often involved in insider attacks, theft, and bacha bazi. (more…)