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The following article highlights the senseless restrictions placed on our military. The maddening truth is that our fighting men and women are dying needlessly. Moreover, our muffled effort in Afghanistan cannot possibly change the course of that culture by July 2011, the time set by President Obama to begin troop withdrawals. All in all, this [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Military, Obama Presidency, War on Terror at 11:00 AM UTC
Remember the White House party crashers? Well, here’s a video that puts a whole new twist on how they should be regarded:
After 8 years of combat in Afghanistan, American military commanders are suddenly relying on an old and disproved strategy: win the hearts and minds of the people. We are going to do this [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Military, Obama Presidency, War on Terror at 7:33 AM UTC
Few things can unite Americans these days. Political, religious and social issues have produced harsh, ragged battle lines across which ugly accusations and threats are regularly hurled. The 21st century may become America’s most acrimonious period, yet there is one thing virtually every citizen agrees on: 2009 was a terrible year. It’s taken the worst [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Holiday Musings, Limiting Government, Military, Taxation at 7:26 AM UTC
Dr. Bernard Brodie, military thinker, author, and UCLA professor, offered that “war without a political purpose is killing for killing’s sake,” an aphorism demonstrated most cruelly in World War I. To this day, students of the Great War cannot pin down its cause, noting that the carnage of Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele and two or three dozen more [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Military, Politics, Video at 4:34 PM UTC
President Bush has sent to Congress the first budget in world history proposing expenditures exceeding $3 trillion in a twelve-month period. If you are like me, numbers with that many zeros are relatively meaningless: $1,000,000,000,000 = $1 trillion. Yawn. So, here’s another way to understand Federal spending. Every second of every day, the Feds disperse $100,000, give or [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Economics, Military at 3:16 PM UTC