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Feb 11 2020
Analysis
How To Take On The Deadly Drug Cartels That Run The U.S.-Mexico Border
After nine U.S. citizens were killed in the Mexican border state of Sonora in November, President Donald Trump threatened to label cartels terrorist organizations. When it came to it, however, he holstered the executive pen and backpedaled out of the saloon at the request of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who desires to embrace the cartels with “abrazos no balazos”—hugs not
The FederalistMay 15 2019
News
Varied points of view rise from Trump, an ally and Iran as Middle East tensions flare
President Donald Trump is struggling to present a unified message on Iran with one high-profile military official undercutting the basis for his administration's confrontational strategy and outside experts increasingly questioning the U.S. endgame.
As bombers recently deployed to the Middle East flew their first message-sending sorties, the president appeared to be caught between hard
USA TODAYDec 19 2019
News
House Votes To Impeach
“President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night.” (AP News)
The left supports impeachment.
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) writes, “The facts in this matter are not in question. President Donald Trump called the president of Ukraine on July 25 and asked him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, using critical
The Flip SideMar 16 2015
News
Letter Calls Plea Deal for David Petraeus a ‘Profound Double Standard’
The plea deal given to retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, which spares him prison time even though he gave military secrets to his mistress, reveals a “profound double standard” in the way the Obama administration treats people who leak classified information, a lawyer for an imprisoned government contractor wrote in a letter to prosecutors.
The sharply worded letter calls for the Justice
New York Times (News)Sep 30 2014
News
Many Missteps in Assessment of ISIS Threat
By late last year, classified American intelligence reports painted an increasingly ominous picture of a growing threat from Sunni extremists in Syria, according to senior intelligence and military officials. Just as worrisome, they said, were reports of deteriorating readiness and morale among troops next door in Iraq.
But the reports, they said, generated little attention in a White
New York Times (News)Dec 18 2019
News
Trump at Michigan rally says 'it doesn't really feel' like impeachment
As the U.S. House of Representatives voted for President Trump’s impeachment Wednesday night in the nation’s capital, Trump took the stage for a rally in Battle Creek, Mich., setting up a split-screen spectacle unlike any other in American history.
“It doesn't really feel like we're being impeached,” Trump said as the House began to vote on Article 1, the abuse of power resolution.
Yahoo NewsFeb 02 2024
Headline Roundup
US Conducts Retaliatory Strikes in Syria, Iraq Following Attack in Jordan
Outlets across the spectrum are reporting that the United States military carried out a series of airstrikes on facilities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday in retaliation for an airstrike on an American base in Jordan that killed three U.S. soldiers last week.
Key Quote: According to a statement from United States Central
New York Times (News) Reuters Fox News DigitalSep 20 2014
News
Americans Back Airstrikes On ISIS Even Though They Don't Think They'll Work
Americans remain big supporters of airstrikes against the Islamic State militants, even though few think they'll do any good, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll shows.
According to the poll, 66 percent of Americans now support the decision to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State, while only 19 percent are opposed. Seventy percent of Democrats, 75 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of
HuffPostAug 02 2019
News
U.S. pulls out of Soviet-era nuclear missile pact with Russia
The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty, something the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
Washington signaled it would pull out of the arms control treaty six months ago unless Moscow stuck to the accord. Russia called the move a ploy to exit a pact the United States wanted to
ReutersAug 30 2014
Opinion
To Defeat Terror, We Need the World’s Help
IN a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States. What’s needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda is a global coalition using political, humanitarian, economic, law enforcement and intelligence tools to support military force.
In addition to its
New York Times (News)