By Mark | January 3, 2020
I posted something here last night about the assassination of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani. In that post, after having said what a terrible man that Soleimani was, and acknowledging that he likely deserved his fate, I said that I found the timing suspect. Well, as some of you have written to say that you disagree […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Agnes Callamard, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Colin Powell, deescalation, Donald Trump, imminent attack, Iran, Mike Pompeo, nuclear proliferation, Qassim Soleimani, retaliation, targeted killings, terrorist, war |
By Mark | January 2, 2020
News has just broken that the Trump administration, without any congressional debate, has assassinated Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force. I hate to think it of my own government, but I can’t help but wonder if this had more to do with changing the narrative around impeachment than it did making the […]
By Mark | October 27, 2019
In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, baseball, booing, chants, credit, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, ISIS, Kurds, lock him up, Mike Pence, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series |
By Mark | January 21, 2019
As of yesterday, the White House was saying that, President Trump and Vice President Pence had “no scheduled plans” for Martin Luther King Day. Today, however, they visited the MLK memorial in DC, where they stood for approximately one minute before leaving. Donald Trump, as he left, made the a brief, yet inspirational, speech. “Good […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1968, anti-immigrant, Barack Obama, Black Panthers, Central Park Five, Donald Trump, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Pence, MLK, racism |
By Mark | November 20, 2018
Today, Donald Trump issued an extremely unusual official statement from the White House on the October 2 murder in Istanbul of United States resident Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. After declaring the world to be “a very dangerous place,” the President, in his statement, made the case as to why, in his opinion, even […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, arms dealing, Bob Corker, bone saws, cheap oil, CIA, demonizing, dismemberment, Donald Trup, Enemy of the State, First Amendment, foreign relations, freedom of the press, fuel efficiency, getting away with murder, global climate change, Hillary Clinton, Jamal Khashoggi, James Comey, Khalid bin Salman, Mar-a-Lago, Middle East, Mohammed bin Salman, murder, Muslim Brotherhood, oil, Saudi Arabia, the price of gas, threats to journalists |
