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
Earlier this week, Maggie Habberman of the New York Times posted that Donald Trump has become full-blown delusional, he actually believes that he is going to be “reinstated” as president by August. The right-wing rag National Review has now confirmed this report. Maggie Haberman Is Right: Two days ago, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman … Read more
My father served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater, and his brothers and cousins also served in the Navy, Army and Marines in the Pacific and European Theaters during World War II. My family was lucky. None were killed in combat, but some returned home from the war decorated combat veterans. They were … Read more