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Obama's Syrian Allies Destroy Another Christian Church

Tuesday August 13, 2013

The Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in the archdiocese of Aleppo was built between 1985 and 1994 on land offered by the al-Thawrah's city council. It served not only its own parishioners, but also allowed other Christian denominations to use its facilities.

Shortly after Aleppo was overrun by rebels seeking to overthrow the Syrian government, the metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Aleppo, Boulos al-Yazigi, was kidnapped (and allegedly murdered) along with the Syriac Orthodox metropolitan, Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim.
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Hundreds Protest NH Police Chief's Tank Request

Tuesday August 13, 2013

The Concord Monitor reports that hundreds of people came to the Concord, New Hampshire city council meeting Monday night to protest Concord Police Chief John Duval's ongoing effort to obtain a Lenco BearCat G3 armored vehicle for the town's police department.

BearCat opposition at the meeting was overwhelming. The Concord Monitor notes that most of the dozens of people speaking during two hours of public testimony opposed acquisition of the tank-like armored vehicle, while outside hundreds of people, including Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire supporters, "played drums, chanted and held signs identifying themselves as citizens, neighbors and taxpayers." To justify the need for the armored vehicle, Duval's initial grant application suggested Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire supporters are terrorists.”
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President's Spy Review Commission Provides Unintended Comedy

Tuesday August 13, 2013

Government commissions are always set up to cover up or hide government incompetence or maliciousness once exposed. They are put together when the government fails spectacularly -- as on 9/11 -- and they are staffed with government insiders who can be trusted to not dig too deeply into government responsibility for its own failures or even its lawlessness. Look on the board of any government commission and you will always see the consummate insiders like Lee Hamilton.
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Embassy Closure Farce Ends Except in Yemen

Tuesday August 13, 2013

Sana'a is a dangerous place, as is all of Yemen. It was dangerous 30 years ago when I was the military attache there and it still is. The government's area of control never extends far outside the cities and the tribal warfare endemic to the country often comes to town. When that situation is complicated by the presence of a small but active Sunni jihadi group (AQAP) it is understandable that the Sana'a embassy should be closed. Perhaps they should close it permanently. That embassy is an incident waiting to happen.
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Washington Gay Policy Push Counterproductive in Russia

Monday August 12, 2013

Americans upset over a new Russian law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors" should think twice before calling on the United States government to help their cause. That is the message of Stephen F. Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University who expresses sympathy with gay rights movements but skepticism of US government action to advance such movements in Russia. As a guest on National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show on Monday, Cohen made astute comments regarding the situation. Here is my transcription of Cohen's comments, which you can hear him present in the discussion that starts at 33:40 in the show:
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NH Police Chief: I Need Tanks to Fight the Free State Project!

Friday August 9, 2013

Bearcat

Mother Jones reports that Concord, NH Police Chief John Duval has backed off his outlandish suggestion that his police department needs a Lenco Bearcat G3 to fend off the terrorism threat posed by the Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire. Duval had made the claim in his application for a $250,000-plus grant to purchase the armored vehicle that Free State Project President Carla Gericke simply calls a tank.

Of course, Duval still wants his Bearcat nonetheless—even if he does have to amend his application. You see, several other New Hampshire police departments already have the armored vehicle, the Bearcat looks really neat in the advert video with AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" playing. And, somebody else is willing to pay for it! Nothing moves the demand curve like “it’s free”.
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US Intervention and Middle East 'Peace'

Tuesday August 6, 2013

US intervention in the Middle East, whether overt or covert, was supposed to bring peace and stability -- even democracy and human rights -- to the region. Ten years after the US "liberation" of Iraq and some two years after US intervention on behalf of rebels seeking to overthrow the government in Syria we see these two horrific stories side-by-side. Do not be fooled: both are the direct result of US interventionism. And in both cases, the victims were made victims by the interventionism of the US government. As we ponder the supposedly rising terror threat of a suddenly reinvigorated al-Qaeda, we would do well to consider how the result of US intervention plays out on the ground -- particularly as the Obama administration has become full to the brim with "humanitarian interventionists."
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