When future historians argue over the legacy of George W. Bush, the question they confront may be just which bracket of presidential failure he belongs in. Nixon and Johnson? Or Herbert Hoover? President Bush earned his place in the pantheon of disgrace even before he presided over an epochal financial crisis. Absent the atrocities of 9/11, he might have been a mediocrity: a big spender too prone to trust his shallow instincts but able to clear the competence threshold and lacking the sophistication to be truly dangerous.
Then came that epic morning, which Bush answered by giving the hijackers far more than they could accomplish with four planes. His grand democratization plan reduced Iraq to rubble, drove Iran to arm, and provided terrorists with the ultimate recruiting tool. America, once renowned for her decency, became the aggressor her foes alleged.
At home, our failed attempt at global liberation has left us less free than ever before. Ancient liberties, cultural imperatives, even basic solvency were subsumed by the war effort. And the conservative movement that gave Bush his margin sanitized his radicalism at the cost of its soul. All he touched turned to dross. Yet he departs unbowed, still a Churchill in his own mind.
Brian: Peter Iraq had nothing to do with it, it was a bunch of Saudi Arabians, Lebanese, and Egyptians, financed by a Saudi Arabian guy living in Afghanistan, and sheltered by Pakistanis.
This is journalism at its best, I feel we should give her a medal and use her as an example to 24 hour news networks.
Is the US already at war with Iran? In "America’s Secret War", Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains, she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women, and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has become the frontline of the US’s secret war with Iran.
The story continues. Another proxy war led by the American government. This happened so many times before under Reagan’s administration and we had George H.W. Bush and his war in Nicaragua against the Sandanistas. Remember the Contras and Ollie North? Remember the illegal funding of the Contras and the selling of weapons to Iran for money to finance the Contras? But no one remember the thousands that died under this war. Things haven’t changed. Bush Sr. = Bush Jr.? You Betcha, this should have been predictable.
And btw, who can say they knew this much about IRAN, Kurds, PKK, PJAK and Hezbollah before?
An obvious CGI, the video was done two years ago for Northrop Grumman. A gizmodo reader was one of the three people who did it and he’s quite surprised to find it online, since it is under NDA.
The one depicted is the X-35 [the prototype that won the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter and became the F-35]. I don’t know who posted it on YouTube, but the level of NDA’s was substantial where we were not even allowed to showcase it on our demo reel.
Religion scares me in the aspect it infiltrates society. We all saw this with al-queda on 9/11 and since in all religions itself with the crusades, the greeks, the mayas, aztecs and incas. No religion overcame obscurity without clashing, without attacking another in the same way we saw 9/11. It was al-queda as they called it, that had attacked the very foundations of America. Its Religious Freedom. Al-Queda imposed that America was lewd, too liberal, lacked morals and among other things, imposed its military in other countries. We all saw what this lead to, a conservative movement within our society. The same way Islam created its own movement and has since the stone ages imposed. When reading the Koran its not much different from the Bible. Same goes for any other “feel good” hero stories from any other religion. While religions do good on the short term for a person, they tend to do more harm than good in the long end for a whole society. We take the conservative movement and escalate to a preacher at the white house. Can you tell me what comes next???
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