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The Safe-Haven Argument for Staying in Afghanistan

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Of all the ridiculous and false arguments for keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan, where they continue to kill and die for nothing, the “safe-haven” argument has to rank among the worst. The argument holds that if U.S. troops are withdrawn from the country, the Taliban will end up winning the civil war, take control over the national government, and convert Afghanistan into another safe haven for al-Qaeda to plan terrorist attacks against the United States, like the 9/11 attacks. In fact, that was the main thing that President Trump was hoping for in his peace talks with the Taliban. As part of the proposed peace deal, the Taliban would agree not to make Afghanistan a safe haven for al-Qaeda in return for Trump’s agreement to withdraw U.S. forces from the country. I can’t help but wonder what Trump would have done if the Taliban ended up violating the agreement. Sue them ...

Guns for Hire

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“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison Eventually, all military empires fall and fail by spreading themselves too thin and spending themselves to death. It happened in Rome. It’s happening again. At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts: The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and ...

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It’s Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob

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The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America's duly elected president. They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the world, bled America's fiscal accounts dry, and fostered unspeakable prosperity among the beltway's legions of empiresupporting agencies, contractors, think tanks, foreign lobbies, NGO's and Kstreet racketeers. Whether out of common sense, naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald has dared to question and disrupt the Empire's core policy on the Ukraine/Russia file. And that's apparently exactly why the whistleblower de jour, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, wrote his now ballyhooed memos. He feared that Trump's appropriate desire to get to the bottom of the welldocumented Ukrainian involvement in the Obama Administration's illegal spying on his 2016 presidential campaign would undermine the bipartisan consensus on ...