2007.09.27 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith
SF Murder Charges Travesty at Ft Bragg
"Uncle Jimbo" Hanson
I had mentioned in a previous piece that I thought I knew MSG Troy Anderson who along with CPT Dave Staffel, now awaits an answer as to whether he will face a Court Martial for the shooting of a known terrorist in Afghanistan. It turns out I do know him and I spoke with him on the phone today. Thanks to his attorney MAJ Lance Daniels and the folks at Ft. Bragg Trial Defense Services for their help in arranging this. In my previous piece I noted that even though two investigations commissioned by then MG Kearney cleared them, he had murder charges preferred anyhow.
I believe that the charges will be not simply dropped, but dropped like poison. ...
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- Winning in Afghanistan
- Quick hits
Winning in Afghanistan
Stephen Brown (H/T: Deebow)
Diplomacy, defense and development.
The three Ds that have made up the West’s strategy in the war in Afghanistan are now starting to pay dividends nearly six years after the US-led invasion toppled the brutal Taliban regime. Earlier this month, greatly underreported by the media but ground-breaking nevertheless, the Taliban signaled its readiness to start peace negotiations with the Kabul government, indicating a setback if not defeat. The Taliban’s preparedness to discuss peace, dropping its long-standing demand that NATO troops must leave the country first, came only two days after Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, said he was willing to hold talks.
“For the sake of national interests…we are fully ready for talks with the government,” Yousuf Ahmed, a Taliban spokesman, was quoted as saying. ...
Quick hits:
- Bush and Iran
The traveling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad circus made for great political theater this week, but the comedy shouldn't detract from its brazen underlying message: The Iranian President believes that the world lacks the will to stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, and that the U.S. also can't stop his country from killing GIs in Iraq. The question is what President Bush intends to do about this in his remaining 16 months in office. ... The Bush Presidency is running out of time to act if it wants to stop Iran from gaining a bomb. With GIs fighting and dying in Iraq, Mr. Bush also owes it to them not to allow enemy sanctuaries or weapons pipelines from Iran. If the President believes half of what he and his Administration have said about Iran's behavior, he has an obligation to do whatever it takes to stop it.
- Sen John McCain: America’s Strategic Vulnerability
... If France can produce 80-percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can’t we? Is France a more secure, advanced, and innovative country than we are? Are France’s scientists and entrepreneurs more capable than we are? ...
- The Nuclear Renaissance Begins
By William Tucker: If you're tracking the nuclear power revival in America, last Tuesday, September 25, was a milestone. For the first time since 1973, a new application for building a reactor was placed before the federal government. ...
- Dhimmbat
Jules Crittenden: It is with great sadness that I must report that not only has Katie Couric failed to transcend dingbatitude, she has embraced dhimmitude. ...
- The Echo Chamber Loses an Echo
John Hinderaker: As we have noted many times over the years, the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has been one of the few institutions in America more consistently left-wing than the New York Times and perhaps, even, MoveOn.org. This cutting-edge leftism has been carried out for the last 15 years under the leadership of Susan Albright, who was let go by the paper yesterday: ...
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