Category: National Security

Afghanistan / Foreign Policy / History / Iraq / Memorials & Rememberaces / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say / Where Are They Now?

March 20, 2013

Ten Years After We Shot Our Way Into Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld Asks For Respect & Appreciation

Rumsfeld’s tweet on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion raised eybrows . . .

113th Congress / 2016 Elections / Congress / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say

March 7, 2013

Word Cloud Of The First 7 Hours Of Rand Paul’s Filibuster – Guess The Top Two Words He Used

This is a word cloud of the first 7 hours of Rand Paul’s filibuster of March 6, 2013

Federal Budget / Health Care / National Security / Politics / Sequestration / Sequestration / The Economy

February 18, 2013

Senator Lindsay Graham, The Sequester, Defense Cuts, And The Swaying Palmetto State Economy

Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 18, 2013 Much of the time South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham reminds me of a grade school pest, someone you want to swat away. Lately his insistence on “Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!”...

Afghanistan / Foreign Policy / Investigations / Iraq / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say

February 1, 2013

“Were You Right Or Wrong, Senator?” The Legacy Of Wrong That Is Senator John McCain, A Small Sampling

“Were you right or wrong, Senator?” John McCain to Chuck Hagel about Hagel’s disagreement with the Iraq surge At the Senate “advise and consent” confirmation hearing yesterday John McCain had so little self-knowledge that...

Foreign Policy / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say

November 25, 2012

The Anythings They Say – Neoconservative Bill Kristol

“I think Susan Rice has been a little more interventionist than John Kerry,” he pointed out. “John Kerry was a guy who loved the Assad regime in Syria. John Kerry has been against our...

Crime & Scandal / National Security / Politics

November 13, 2012

The CIA And Lockheed Martin. Dalliances Leave National Security Feeling Jilted.

According to unnamed souces, national security has rarely felt more cruelly jilted, left unprotected and vulnerable, and for so little. Former CIA Director David Petraeus’ (almost) clandestine affair with his biographer Joan Broadwell potentially left national security...

History / Memorials & Rememberaces / National Security / Politics / Veterans' Issues

November 12, 2012

Veterans Day 2012 – “. . .cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying . . .”

” . . .cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying . . .” Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Fight to the Finish fr. Counter-Attack and Other Poems. 1918. Please follow and like us:

Humor / Mitt Romney / National Security / Politics

November 10, 2012

The General Confusion At The CIA & Two Reasons Mitt Romney Ought To Be The Next CIA Director

Today, David Petraeus left the directorship of the CIA one step ahead of the divorce lawyers. As of today’s retreat, those among the more nearly sane GOP strategists may have held out hope...

Just In: Giuliani Throws Hail Mary For Team Romney, Candy Crowley Intercepts And Runs It All The Way Back!

2012 Elections / Assinine / Foreign Policy / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say

September 16, 2012

Just In: Giuliani Throws Hail Mary For Team Romney, Candy Crowley Intercepts And Runs It All The Way Back!

At about 9:50 am on CNN’s State of the Union, Cathy Crowley intercepted a pass from an unfortunate back-up GOP quarterback Rudy Giuliani and ran it into the endzone. The pass thrown by Mayor...

Romney On Embassy Attacks: Diagnosing An Ill Campaign Showing Symptons of Metastatic Balderdash

2012 Elections / Foreign Policy / Mitt Romney / National Security / Politics / The Anythings They Say / The Mitt Romnathon

September 14, 2012

Romney On Embassy Attacks: Diagnosing An Ill Campaign Showing Symptons of Metastatic Balderdash

“We’ve had this consistent critique and narrative on Obama’s foreign policy, and we felt this was a situation that met our critique, that Obama really has been pretty weak in a number of ways...

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