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How do we fight terrorism abroad?
At the same time that we are working to secure and defend the American homeland, the United States must also be aggressively waging the war on terrorism abroad. The United States is safer if terrorists never reach our borders and the whole world is safer if they never turn to terrorism at all. Understanding these facts, the United States has developed a two-pronged approach to winning the war on terrorism overseas. First, we must identify and neutralize those individuals who represent threats to American interests. Naturally, some of these people are actual terrorists, with the intention of traveling to the United States or our foreign installations and causing death and destruction. Others are terrorist supporters, including governments, financiers, religious leaders, and instructors, all of whom are essential to the continued implementation and success of terrorism. Their work is as deadly as that of their operational allies and must be stopped if we hope to prevent further attacks.
At the same time that the United States is fighting terrorism where it already exists, it also has developed and implemented a multidimensional approach to preventing the spread of radicalism and the education of new terrorists. Certain conditions generally accompany the decision of an individual to turn to terrorism, including socioeconomic status, integration into the community, level and type of education, and exposure to foreign cultures. While these are not foolproof predictors of potential radical sympathies, they so frequently accompany a susceptibility to radicalization and a willingness to use violence that their association is generally accepted by most analysts. If the United States can reduce the pervasiveness and potency of these factors, it may also be able to control the spread of terrorism worldwide.
According to Lisette (and numerous press reports), the marathon 13-hour arraignment was a bizarre scene, to say the least. How bizarre? Throughout the proceeding, the terrorist suspects engaged in a wide variety of disruptive behaviors.
Considering how women are treated under Sharia law, it would't surprise me at all if it were fake!
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When you think about all the advantages Iran has, you see why Iran believes it owns the future. Unfortunately, the West dismisses the regime’s goals as meaningless bravado that, even if true, could never come to pass. Really?
"President Obama and members of his team criticized severely a number of aspects of the Bush administration's war on terrorism that they have since found it necessary and useful to embrace," said Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's top policymaker in those early war years.
Former President George W. Bush said that the Arab Spring is "the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet Communism." "These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom."
Bad start in life: Little Bob, was just eight weeks old, and weighed less than a kilo when he was found dumped in the car park of a veterinary practice suffering from the extreme cold and a ruptured eyeball
Veteran CIA official Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., who led all U.S. counterterrorism operations after 9/11, tells Newsmax that under President Barack Obama the agency has been forced to give up interrogation "capabilities" that it may need to protect American lives.
Good comparison. Unfortunately, it's a little more difficult for us to cut California off than it is for the EU to cut off Greece. The Golden State is now the Tarnished State.
Not only is the supposed CIA asset not a CIA asset at all, but the entire operation was exposed prematurely and the double-agent's life was immediately threatened by an intelligence leak that very well may have come out of the White House for political gain.
The ghosts of Somalia past, Iraq present and Iran future haunt the U.N.’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine - created to stop genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Is R2P irrelevant?
Technology’s capabilities are moving at lightning speed, so fast that, ironically, they may be turned against the U.S. by end users who now possess the knowledge we created. The implications for counterintelligence are profound.
And he'll probably be feted and defended by the far left in the same manner as Bradley Manning.
Pentagon policies bar Staff Sgt. Marie Martinson from direct ground combat, but she nonetheless has taken on the No. 1 killer of troops in Afghanistan: improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Iranian outlets have been claiming recently the United States has been forced to bow before Iran on its nuclear program, demonstrating the West's abandonment of Israel and paving the way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state.
With Sharyl Atkisson's reporting on Fast and Furious and now this, CBS is positioning itself to be on liberals' hate list right after Fox News!
The three top Egyptian Presidential candidates exude the peace the Arab Spring has brought us. Fotouh: “Israel is an enemy.” Morsi: “Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal”. Moussa: “Most of our people consider it [Israel] an enemy.”
Iran's ayatollahs are showing frustration with Iranians leaving Islam for Christianity in large numbers despite the threat of execution for apostasy.
And yet our federal government resists tightening the border with Mexico because they don't want to hurt the feeling of illegal aliens - all while cartels practice their violent craft just on the other side and even bring it over here. What is this, BizzaroWorld?
I wonder how welcome a church or synagogue in a Muslim neighborhood would be? Tolerance is often a one-way street these days.
All over Europe, state employees demand exemption from the austerity the private sector must make. Beyond all slogans about fairness and compassion is a selfish sentiment: ‘Make future generations pay my pension!’
Pretty much. And soon, that cake will be gone - then what will they do???
And here in America, feminists are wasting their time worrying about free birth control.
When the American Left addresses the real and deadly terrorist threat, they respond in the best Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Chavista and community-organizer traditions: if the facts don’t work, make up new ones.
Terrorists have been upgrading improvised explosive devices to defeat airport security. One such device can surgically implant bombs inside their bodies. This brings whole new meaning to “improvised explosive device”.
Gitmo terrorist lawyer,Cheryl T. Bormann, bragged to colleagues that she is related to the late top Nazi official, Martin Bormann. Bormann was Adolf Hitler's private secretary, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, and a Reich Leader.
Socialist France moved further to the left of Putin's Russia. The French just elected President the leftist Francois Hollande who professes to be the protector of the poor, wants more government handouts (stimulus), and rejects the austerity measures that his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy had cobbled with Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor.
A British undercover agent infiltrated al-Qaeda, volunteered to be a suicide bomber and smuggled out the latest version of the deadly underpants bomb, it can be disclosed.
The golden age of opulence and scholarship of historic Timbuktu is gone. Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world with widespread starvation, forced labor, sex trafficking and worse. Why – what happened there?
Was this leak politically motivated? Inquiring minds would like to know.
The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance in much of Europe have renewed calls for ending budget austerity and returning to larger fiscal deficits.
Why do so many Arabs sound like Nazis when they talk about Jews? The answer lay buried for decades in the archives of the Third Reich.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is skipping a planned visit to the United States this month for an economic summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama.
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice: ‘The war on terror, as some have called it'
May 15, 2012 02:08 PM
Wow. When will they learn that political correctness is no longer just annoying, but it is potentially deadly? War on terror sounds too meany pants! Let’s put our heads in the sand and pretend we can all have cookies. A reminder, Ms. Rice.
French president's plane struck by lightning
May 15, 2012 12:16 PM
François Hollande’s plane was en route from Paris to Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel when it was struck and forced to turn back. Maybe Mother Nature’s not such a fan of the 75% income tax rate idea …
Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers clash in Ofer on Nakba Day
May 15, 2012 06:51 AM
Palestinians are protesting in Ofer (south of Haifa) to show their solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who have been complaining about prison conditions. Today is Nakba Day, also known as “day of disaster” or “day of the catastrophe.” It commemorates the Israeli Declaration of Independence 64 years ago, in 1948. Supporters of Palestinians are using the hashtag #Nakba64 [...]
49 bodies found on highway connecting U.S. and Mexico
May 13, 2012 04:36 PM
It is presumed that drug cartels are behind the finding of 49 mutilated bodies along a highway that connects Mexico and the United States. This continues a string of similar incidents during the past month. From The Independent: Mexico’s organized crime groups often abandon multiple bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals, though [...]
Whoa! Easter Island heads are more than just heads!
May 10, 2012 07:03 PM
File under “SOOOOOO COOL“: Apparently excavations of the bodies have been going on for some time now, you can find out more from the Easter Island Statue Project. It's generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1000 and 1650 AD. There is controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried, the real reason is unknown. Was [...]
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