So I watched an interview on MSNBC in which the talking head asked Malcolm Nance, a US Intelligence expert on terrorist strategy, tactics, and ideology, if the fall of Kabul was an intelligence failure. Nance explained “No, it is not an intelligence failure.” (video not yet available). Nance posted on Twitter a shorter version of his … Read more
Watching the news this past week has been a flashback to April 1975, and the rapid advance of the North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong insurgency allies in South Vietnam on the capitol of Saigon. The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) collapsed in the face of this lightening assault, and Saigon fell on April 30, … Read more
We have been here before: President George W. Bush signed the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a deadline of 31 December 2011, before which “all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory”. President Barack Obama oversaw compliance with the agreement. The last U.S. troops left Iraq on December 18, 2011. U.S troops … Read more
The House voted Thursday to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed to give legal backing for the Iraq War with the support of Democrats, Republicans and the White House — an unprecedented coalition to end post- 9/11 authorities to engage in hostilities that critics argue are outdated. The Washington Post … Read more
New Russian sanctions announced today by the Treasury Department reveal a direct line between Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort and Russian intelligence agencies. This intelligence was always in the possession of the Trump administration, but appears to have been withheld from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. New scandal: was it withheld? Today’s Russian sanctions … Read more